| Title: | THEORETICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN SEMI-CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM TUNNELING EFFECT |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812772985_0051 |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 494-503)
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| Author(s): | FULVIO FRISONE
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Department of Physics, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95125 Catania, Italy
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| Abstract: | We compare the trends, at constant temperature, of the probability of tunneling and of the effective quantum and semi-classical potentials, which describe, under these conditions, the interaction between deuterons in pure and impure palladium lattices. It is seen that only the quantum case is characterized by an amplified tunneling effect on increasing the concentration of impurities present in the lattice, as previously observed. Further, it is hypothesized that the phenomenon of fusion is not only conditioned by structural characteristics and the thermodynamic conditions of the system, but also by the concentration of impurities present in the metal, correlated with the deuterium loading within the lattice itself. The analysis will attempt to determine whether, in the case of the three-dimensional isotropy, D2 loading can lead to the formation of micro-cracks in an analogous manner to that suggested for temperature variation. This would constitute an ulterior verification of the hypotheses proposed. |
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