Self-Organization of Condensed Matter in Fluctuating Environment

Condensed matter

Foreword Physics and physicists play a vital role in underpinning our way of life, improving its quality and contributing in a major way to wealth creation. Innovations as powerful and diverse as the World Wide Web and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have emerged from studies in basic physics, becoming everyday technologies in just two decades. It is, therefore, a worthwhile challenge to specu...

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With recent publicity outside the CMNS field it has become increasingly important to clarify in non-specialist terms what is known and what is understood in the general field of so called Low Energy or lattice Enhanced Nuclear Reactions (LENR). It is also crucial and timely to expose and elaborate what objections or reservations exist with regard to these new understandings. In essence we are c...

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The key insight of Bogoliubov is that although the mean-field Hamiltonian (1) is clearly not diagonal in the space of states created by the operators ck,↑/↓, it may be diagonal in a basis of states created by operators related to these via a simple SU2 transformation. Indeed, it may be the case that ‘electrons’ and ‘holes’ are the wrong degrees of freedom to consider; we should at least look to...