COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING PALLADIUM-DEUTERIUM AND TITANIUM-DEUTERIUM LATTICES - IMPLICATIONS TO PHENOMENON OF LOW-ENERGY NUCLEAR-REACTION

Short-lived large energy fluctuations (SLEFs) in solids, proposed by K hait, are known to be responsible for several anomalous properties in a variety of materials. The study of SLEFs in palladium-deuterium and titanium-deuterium lattices via computer experiments is reported. The relevance of these large energy fluctuations in penetrating coulombic barriers in these systems is discussed. Such dynamical effects arising from the phonon bath in solids may enhance nuclear reaction probabili ties leading to cold fusion. Expected cold fusion reaction rates are r eported taking into account the effective charges of the deuterium ato ms in the solid and SLEF frequencies.