Published February 9, 2022
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Ballistic charge transport by mobile nonlinear excitations
Description
The developments in hyperconductivity, the loss-free transmission of electric
charge at room temperature and above, due to the ballistic transport of electric
charge in crystals with quasi-layered structure, are reported. The electric charge is
carried by quodons, a type of mobile nonlinear intrinsic localized mode of lattice
excitation observed as fossil tracks in layered silicates and recently by laboratory
experiments. Here, ballistic means moving with minimal scattering or interaction
with phonons. A test for hyperconductivity in solid materials is developed. It is
based on the unique effect of short-term continuation of transport of charge, by
total internal reflection, after creation of quodons has ceased. This effect is called
the slow-quodon-decay effect or SQD effect. So far, only layered silicates have
been shown to exhibit hyperconductivity. New evidence is presented for
hyperconductivity in chrysotile, a nonlayered silicate material with new results.
Being a fibrous material, it is more flexible than the sheet mica phyllosilicates.
It is found that quodons can also be created and carry charge in very different
materials, such as polymers, but without showing hyperconductivity, because of
the very short range and lifetime of quodons in those materials.
Abstract
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2019-109175GB-C22Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/129805
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/129805