How do we slow light down...we squeeze it. Even though this slow light is restricted in position, it is wide-ranging in momentum. Small optical cavities slow down light but in doing so, this squeezing makes it very potent in momentum.
. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > New Arxiv.org paper related to LENR - > > "Tunneling of slow quantum packets through the high Coulomb barrier" > > ABSTRACT: > We study the tunneling of slow quantum packets through a high Coulomb > barrier. We show that the transmission coefficient can be quite different > from the standard expression obtained in the plane wave (WKB) > approximation (and larger by many orders of magnitude), even if the > momentum dispersion is much smaller than the mean value of the momentum. > > http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3837 > > "Slow" packets here refer to relatively narrow packets whose center moves > at a relatively slow velocity. Narrow wave packets can contain high > momentum components. > > I believe that the following 2013 presentation made by Allan Widom - > "Electro-Weak and Electro-Strong Views of Nuclear Transmutations" > > vglobale.it/public/files/2013/Cirps-Widom.pdfý<http://vglobale.it/public/files/2013/Cirps-Widom.pdf%C3%BD> > - points out a similar effect. > I.E, on slide 12 "Electron Mass Renormalization I" > > He notes that "Slowly Varying u(x) and Quickly Varying S(x)" can > represent an wave packet with much more energy than a simple observation > of its envelop "u(x)" would lead one to expect if its phase "S(x)" is > rapidly oscillating within the a slow (even almost static) envelop. > > -- Lou Pagnucco > > > >
