Comment on "Anomalous Deep Inelastic Scattering from Liquid H2O-D2O: Evidence of Nuclear Quantum Entanglement"

TL;DR

This paper discusses unexpected experimental results in deep inelastic scattering from water molecules and proposes an explanation based on quantum coherence effects in condensed matter.

Contribution

It provides a critical comment on previous findings and introduces a novel explanation involving the two-fluid model and QED coherence in water.

Findings

Observed strong dependence of proton/deuteron cross section ratios on mixture composition

Proposed explanation based on quantum coherence and two-fluid water model

Highlights potential quantum effects in condensed matter physics

Abstract

We comment some recent unexpected experimental results on proton/deuteron deep inelastic scattering off water molecules in H2O-D2O mixtures (C.A. Chatzidimitrou-Dreismann et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2839 (1997)) where a strong dependence of the ratio of proton/deuteron cross sections on the composition of the mixture was observed. We propose an explanation of this new effect based on the two-fluid picture of water which arises from the theory of QED coherence in condensed matter.