This is how this stuff looks to me now.

Reference:

http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2010/MQSS10/Talks/Littlewood_Michigan_PBL.pdf

Infrared photons cause the electrons in a dipole to tunnel across a
dielectric barrier. A separation of charge is produced with holes on one
side of the dielectric barrier and electrons on the other.

Let us take an example…A crack with two faces or two nano-particles
separated by a few nano-meters can separate charge through dipole vibration
with electrons gathering on one side of the crack or nano-particle and
electrons on the other face of the crack or the other nano-particle.


The dipole vibrations sync up with the waves of the infrared photons. More
electron tunneling happens than recombination of holes and electrons
because the infrared photons greatly increase electron tunneling across the
dielectric barrier. Charge separation happens very fast. The charge
separation becomes very large because of the massive electron tunneling
that is going on across the dielectric barrier; I guess that means high
voltage develops across the dielectric gap.

More infrared photons produce more tunneling and associated charge
separation.

But the dipoles are also made coherent by the infrared photons. This is how
ionized atoms (holes) can form a BEC at very high temperatures.

Extreme charge separation of the dipoles separated by a large dielectric
gap causes screening of the coulomb barrier in the holes (atoms mostly
stripped of their electrons by intense tunneling across the dielectric
barrier).

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