Abstract
The possibility of protonic quantum effects in metal-hydrogen systems is discussed, in connection with current theoretical (Complex Scaling Method (CSM), Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations, coherent-dissipative structures) and experimental work (on detection of coherent-dissipative structures of protons in water at room temperature). The following two effects are considered: 1 The measurement of the diffusion coefficient DH of H in NbHxDy, with x+y = const. (e.g. = 0.60) with NMR, shows a striking decrease of DH (up to one order of magnitude) with decreasing H-concentration. 2 The comparison of mobilities of H and μ+ in different metal hydrides reveals the surprising feature that muons (as measured by μSR) apparently diffuse slower than hydrogen (as measured in the absence of muons by neutron scattering) in a large temperature regime. These effects are interpreted in a natural way within the framework of the CSM-theory, where broken EPR correlations between protons in the presence of other particles (muons or deuterons) are taken into consideration. As a result, the characteristic length of the protonic coherent-dissipative structures is shown to be about (1–3)X(lattice constant). – A new prediction of the CSM-theory concerning neutron scattering on metalhydrogen systems is stated explicitly.
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