http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.193002
Quantum Fluctuations Affect a Row of Distant Ions The quantum vacuum teems with particles flitting in and out of existence, with small but measurable effects on matter. A team of Israeli researchers now show that virtual photons produce a tiny collective energy change in a row of trapped ions even when the ions are micrometers apart. This action at a distance is a hallmark of the LENR reaction. Greatly enhanced virtual photons strength function in LENR to stabilize radioactive byproducts of fusion reactions. The influence of virtual photons in the quantum vacuum was first seen in frequency shifts in the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum. The discovery of this “Lamb shift”—named for the Nobel-prize-winning experimenter Willis Lamb who first measured it—inspired a new description of the electromagnetic field’s interaction with matter: quantum electrodynamics (another Nobel-prize-winning effort.) In this latest research, physicists have used atom-trapping technology to show how the vacuum’s effects grow when many identical emitters interact. For example, in “superradiance,” the total emission increases because virtual photons emitted by one atom stimulate emission by the others. The corresponding “collective Lamb shift” of the energy levels has previously been measured for emitters that are closer than the light wavelength, so their dipole moments interact directly. Atoms are bosoms and when bosoms all communicate so that they work in unison, greatly enhanced super-radiance resonance results. Polaritons are strongly coupled through dipole thermal vibrations. A collection of polaritons will quickly reach a state of condensation to a common residential quantum configuration. The virtual particles produced by this condensate is super-radiant meaning those disturbances in the EMF field will be greatly amplified and there effects will be felt at a considerable distance from there point of origin. Not only the magnetic anaplole fields produced by polariton solitons will be greatly amplified by super-radiance but also the associated virtual particles derived from disturbances in the vacuum in which the polariton solitons condensate rests will also be greatly amplified. In such a situation, a very quick or even instantaneous stabilization of radioactive nuclear wast products from fusion reactions will result.
