title: On the "unreasonable" effects of ELF magnetic fields upon a system of ions.
abstract: A recent experiment on a physical, nonbiological system of ions at room temperature has proved that microscopic ion currents can be induced by applying simultaneously two parallel magnetic fields, one rather weak static field, (-->)B(0) and one much weaker alternating field, (-->) B(ac),[B(ac) approximately 10(-3) B(0)] whose frequency coincides with the cyclotron frequency v = qB(0)/2pim of the selected ion. As a result, ionic bursts lasting up to 20 s and with amplitude up to 10 nA arise. The much larger exchanges of energy induced by thermal agitation (the "kT-problem") appear to play no role whatsoever. We have analyzed this problem in the framework of coherent quantum electrodynamics, reaching the following conclusions: (a) as has been shown in previous articles, water molecules in the liquid and solute ions are involved in their ground state in coherent ordered configurations; (b) ions are able to move without collisions among themselves in the interstices between water coherence domains; (c) because of coherence, ions can follow classical orbits in the magnetic fields. A full quantitative understanding of the experiments is thus reached.
authors.affiliation: INFN-Milano, Via Celoria, 16-20133 Milan, Italy. delgiudice@mi.infn.it
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Del Giudice
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fleischmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Preparata
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Talpo
mesh_terms: D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011846:Radio Waves; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D014867:Water