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One of those great videos that I will watch many times. Has there been a Q&A or did they go to lunch?

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They were letting all the other presentations run over and so there was not time for questions

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Hi Bob

I saw your presentation at the Bill Collis Memorial 16th International Workshop of Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metal between the 2nd and 4th of September 2024 in Strasbourg, France

A you know, I beleive that the toroid is produced by the Exciton polariton petal condensate.

So I asked the AI this question: "how do the polaritons move within each petal of a the petal condensate"

It answered as follows:

Within each petal of a petal condensate, polaritons move in a circular pattern, with a phase shift of π between adjacent petals, essentially creating a rotating wavefront that follows the shape of the petal, resulting in a standing wave pattern where the polaritons oscillate back and forth within the petal boundaries while maintaining a coherent phase relationship with the other petals; this movement is often described as a superposition of counter-rotating orbital angular momentum states within the annular potential well that forms the condensate.

Key points about polariton movement in a petal condensate:

Phase shift:

The key feature is the π phase shift between neighboring petals, which creates the distinct petal structure and prevents the polaritons from simply spreading out uniformly.

Circular motion:

Within each petal, the polaritons essentially "rotate" around the center of the petal, following the curvature of the petal shape.

Standing wave:

Due to the confinement within the petal boundaries and the phase relationships between petals, the overall pattern appears as a standing wave, with the polaritons oscillating back and forth within each petal.

The references were as follows

Orbital angular momentum:

The petal structure can be understood as a superposition of orbital angular momentum states with different azimuthal indices, which are essentially "twists" in the wavefunction corresponding to the circular motion within each petal.

If you want to add some existing science insights into the subject in your next lecture, I will show some references.

See the references in the other post

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Thanks Axil,

I am happy for others to layer on their interpretations based on whatever theory and I stick to the repeatable physical evidence and the work product of these things and phenomenological observations of apparent processes they enable.

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I wish people were more familiar with your extended presentations, coming to this without proper context must have been really mind boggling for the people attending.

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At this point, I am happy if I get the opportunity to just place flags in the ground that can be referred back to. This event cost basically a week of my time and a few thousand dollars so I could share a small fraction of the work of the project for 30 mins.

It is nice to see new and young faces in the room that came to see what the MFMP had done, outside of those, the majority of the room just don't give it a second thought, some are barely awake during the presentation.

I appreciate the opportunity to meet some people there also from the field. The majority are in the MIT, EU, ARPA-e or Japanese funded groups, we are an outlier, but that has always been the case from the get-go.

I thank Jacques for having the courage to let more people share their research on EVO related matters.

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Note that not a single person at the conference even acknowledged that Bin-Juine Huang et. al. had published in Nature - Scientific Reports. No one during or after has enquired about the physical data presented and no one asked about the main-stream journal peer-reviewed papers that I based my hypothesis on.

That being said, Jacques did allow Anatoly Klimov to submit his paper and sent it out to the group.

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Excellent work Bob!

Looking forward to project Zeus!

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The references were as follows

Orbital angular momentum:

The petal structure can be understood as a superposition of orbital angular momentum states with different azimuthal indices, which are essentially "twists" in the wavefunction corresponding to the circular motion within each petal.

Selective Excitation of Exciton–Polariton Condensate Modes in an ...

Apr 15, 2024 — Additionally, we observe that the interference fringes are discontinuous and exhibit dislocation phenomena. As shown i...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

Spontaneously coherent orbital coupling of counterrotating exciton ...

Mar 1, 2021 — The potential depth can be defined as 90 meV from the energy difference between the dispersions of the surrounding plan...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

Spontaneously coherent orbital coupling of counterrotating ...

Mar 1, 2021 — In this work, we have demonstrated the coupling of counterrotating polariton flows at room temperature in an artificial...

Nature

Coupled counterrotating polariton condensates in optically defined ...

Jun 2, 2014 — 2D). At sufficiently high powers, the corresponding polariton population reaches the critical density for condensation ...

PNAS

Interference and phase of the petal-shaped polariton ...

... petal-shaped polariton condensates are discontinuous and staggered into stripes (Fig. 4b), which implies the existence of a π ...

ResearchGate

Stochastic circular persistent currents of exciton polaritons - Nature

Jun 5, 2024 — Experimentally, we achieve controlled non-resonant excitation of polariton condensates, which support internal, continu...

Nature

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https://youtu.be/vFypUSvHnqA?si=1Xl-cF0eam31Z2Yy Hi Bob. At the 2:00 mark a curious plasma appears in a video from Brazil. Just thought I would throw it here on the record, as I work through your latest. Kudos!

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