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Cold Fusion and Proton Pairs

mercoledì, Aprile 15th, 2026

It's probably a trivial coincidence, but thinking back to the toy model of cold fusion that we worked out It occurred to me that something similar happens in the phenomenon of superconductivity, where instead of proton-proton pairs, we have the famous "Cooper pairs" or a bound electron-electron state. In my case, I had set the eigenvalue of the angular momentum in the relative motion to zero, so as to eliminate the centrifugal potential (which diverges for r->0, like r^(-2)). The exclusion principle does the rest, that is, it "forces" the protons into the spin singlet state (which is actually a Bell state, but that's another story). In fact, consulting Landau (statistical mechanics), on page 199 one reads:

At this point, the mechanism governing the cold fusion process is actually Bose-Einstein condensation. To be more precise, each individual pair of protons, having a total spin of zero, forms a "Bose gas" and as such exhibits the aforementioned degeneracy phenomenon. The only problem is that degeneracy occurs near absolute zero (specifically, below a critical temperature), while cold fusion occurs at room temperature.

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[¯|¯] Cold Fusion and Quantum Entanglement

mercoledì, Aprile 15th, 2026

fusione fredda, entanglement quantistico,equazione di schrödinger — .

As seen in post precedente,the system must be in a state of total orbital angular momentum

with eigenvalue l=0, so that the potential barrier can be "thinned." Therefore, the most general orbital wave function can be written:

where u_E(r) are the eigenfunctions of the energy (recall that the spectrum of the Hamiltonian of this system is purely continuous), c(E) are the coefficients of the expansion of ψ in terms of eigenfunctions, so