Coherent Electrodynamic Processes in Solid Molecular Hydrogen

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new approach to understanding solid molecular hydrogen by incorporating coherent electrodynamic processes from Quantum ElectroDynamics, challenging traditional electrostatic models and explaining experimental puzzles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework that includes QED-predicted coherent electrodynamic processes to explain solid hydrogen's properties, revising existing electrostatic-based theories.

Findings

Explains experimental puzzles of solid hydrogen

Highlights importance of coherent electrodynamic processes

Calls for revision of current condensed matter models

Abstract

The many experimental puzzles of solid hydrogen, that seem to defy the generally accepted view of condensed matter, are shown to be a rather straightforward consequence of a new approach to condensed matter physics, that takes into account the coherent electrodynamic processes, predicted by Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) that have been so far overlooked. As a consequence, a revision of the present view, based on electrostatic forces only, is called for.