Thermal Resonance Fusion

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel low-energy nuclear fusion mechanism called thermal resonance fusion, where thermal vibrations in crystal lattices enable light nuclei like deuterium to overcome Coulomb barriers through resonance and tunneling effects.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of thermal resonance fusion, demonstrating how thermal vibrations and resonance in metal crystal lattices can facilitate nuclear fusion at low energies.

Findings

Thermal resonance can enhance fusion probability significantly.

Resonance energy above 3 keV increases tunneling probability.

Resonance sharpness and catalysts are key to feasible fusion rates.

Abstract

We first show a possible mechanism to create a new type of nuclear fusion, thermal resonance fusion, i.e. low energy nuclear fusion with thermal resonance of light nuclei or atoms, such as deuterium or tritium. The fusion of two light nuclei has to overcome the Coulomb barrier between these two nuclei to reach up to the interacting region of nuclear force. We found nuclear fusion could be realized with thermal vibrations of crystal lattice atoms coupling with light atoms at low energy by resonance to overcome this Coulomb barrier. Thermal resonances combining with tunnel effects can greatly enhance the probability of the deuterium fusion to the detectable level. Our low energy nuclear fusion mechanism research - thermal resonance fusion mechanism results demonstrate how these light nuclei or atoms, such as deuterium, can be fused in the crystal of metal, such as Ni or alloy, with synthetic thermal vibrations and resonances at different modes and energies experimentally. The probability of tunnel effect at different resonance energy given by the WKB method is shown that indicates the thermal resonance fusion mode, especially combined with the tunnel effect, is possible and feasible. But the penetrating probability decreases very sharply when the input resonance energy decreases less than 3 keV, so for thermal resonance fusion, the key point is to increase the resonance peak or make the resonance sharp enough to the acceptable energy level by the suitable compound catalysts, and it is better to reach up more than 3 keV to make the penetrating probability larger than 10^{-10}.