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View SchemaDense Antihydrogen: Its Production and Storage to Envision Antimatter Propulsion
| Authors | Michael Martin Nieto, Michael H. Holzscheiter, Thomas J. Phillips |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0110087 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110087 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1464-4266/5/6/001 |
| Journal | J. Opt. B 5 (2003) S547 |
Abstract
We discuss the possibility that dense antihydrogen could provide a path towards a mechanism for a deep space propulsion system. We concentrate at first, as an example, on Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) antihydrogen. In a Bose-Einstein Condensate, matter (or antimatter) is in a coherent state analogous to photons in a laser beam, and individual atoms lose their independent identity. This allows many atoms to be stored in a small volume. In the context of recent advances in producing and controlling BECs, as well as in making antihydrogen, this could potentially provide a revolutionary path towards the efficient storage of large quantities of antimatter, perhaps eventually as a cluster or solid.
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