RECENT PROGRESS IN CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE

摘要

This report is an update on the physics/chemistry discipline known as Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (CMNS), also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). The paper was prepared for Peter Wilhelm, Head of the Naval Center for Space Technology. Much has happened in the last seven years. CMNS started with the cold fusion research of Fleischmann and Pons, first reported in 1989. At that time the physics/chemistry community considered that it was impossible for a chemistry process to stimulate a nuclear reaction. Twenty years of laboratory research has shown otherwise. Related work on coherence physics, such as is concerned with Bose condensates in optical lattices, has widened the horizon as to what can be achieved.