Verification of the existence of a scientific article

[CarboMirakli]

I have spent a lot of time trying to verify the existence of an alleged scientific article but have not been able to.

The only info I have about the article is the following text:

Researchers working with large magnetic fields discovered in the 1960's that metals when induced into a high spin state (using fields of approximately 540,000 gauss) were capable of passing energy from one high spin atom to the next with no net loss of energy.

Maybe someone here is aware of this article and can provide the source.

 

[kurros]

If that is all the info you have then why do you care to find it? There must surely be some relevant background information you have not mentioned.

 

[arivero]

If that is all the info you have then why do you care to find it? There must surely be some relevant background information you have not mentioned.

Call me paranoid, but based in the recent questions in this forum, I think that there is some scam going on, offering some incredible business oportunity based on pseudoscience. What i do not get is why is everyone asking in this forum, except if some keyword search is pointing here.

 

[CarboMirakli]

If that is all the info you have then why do you care to find it? There must surely be some relevant background information you have not mentioned.

I care to find this article, just based on that text, because of what it implies to me.

Call me paranoid, but based in the recent questions in this forum, I think that there is some scam going on, offering some incredible business opportunity based on pseudoscience. What i do not get is why is everyone asking in this forum, except if some keyword search is pointing here.

The implied information is important to me and it has nothing to do with business opportunities based on pseudoscience.


P.S. I would love to thank a PF Mentor...

 

[Gordianus]

To the OP.
Where did you get that paragraph? Knowing the origin might help

 

[CWatters]

What do you actually want?

For what it's worth those words can be found here..

http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/hudson.htm

Researchers working with large magnetic fields discovered in the 1960's that metals when induced into a high spin state (using energies of approximately 540,000 gauss) were capable of passing energy from one high spin atom to the next with no net loss of energy! This was the discovery of superconductivity.

but do you want "the" 1960's paper?

 

[CarboMirakli]

Yes, the paper. That is not were i found it, but yes, the 1960's paper.

 

[mfb]

The website looks a bit confusing. However, some things I found (no paper from 1960):

Spin density wave at Wikipedia:

The existence of the SDW [spin-density wave] in Cr was first posited in 1960 by Albert Overhauser of Purdue. Cliff Shull of MIT won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for his experimental observation of the Cr SDW. The theory of CDWs [charge-density wave] was first put forth by Rudolf Peierls of Oxford University, who was trying to explain superconductivity.

Related: Overhauser effect: "The Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) is the transfer of nuclear spin polarization from one nuclear spin population to another via cross-relaxation."

Passing spins around without loss of energy sounds like Spin superconductors.

Concerning the next statement on the website CWatters linked:

Superconductivity allows the conduction of energy through a resonance phenomenon. Unlike electrical conduction, energy can be passed from one superconductor to another with contact, without resistance and, therefore, with no net loss of energy.

This looks like superconducting tunnel junction, but is different from superconducting materials in general.

To create superconductivity in a potential superconductor, an external magnetic field must be applied to get the system going. Once the flow of energy is set in motion, however, it is only necessary to keep the conditions correct so that the material remains superconductive.

This is wrong.

This was the discovery of superconductivity.

And this part of the initial quote is wrong, too. Superconductivity was discovered in 1911 with mercury, and without any magnetic fields.

 

[CarboMirakli]

mfb, thank you for your analyses.

The Nuclear Overhauser Effect, is very close to the effect mentioned in the text, but it appears to lack the detail of a high-spin state induced by a magnetic field.

I found another link, related to the CWatters link, that appears to be closer to the article that i am looking for. This link,http://www.rexresearch.com/ormes/hudsnlec.htm, states:

This is a 1960's book that my Ph.D. studied at Iowa State University and it's actually an article about nuclear quadrupole moment and nuclear quadrupole moment spectroscopy. They actually find that by applying these 800,000 gauss magnetic fields that they could cause the nucleus to spin flip to the high-spin state. And then when they release these fields they read the resonance that comes out of the nucleus as the nucleus drops back down to the low spin state.

 

[PhilDSP]

A Google search on "540,000 gauss" turns up a reference to a book called "Water" apparently by a prolific author of medical books. The Google books' rendering of the book's contents is no longer up on the web though. But it sounds like that book would provide a reference to the paper.

http://books.google.com/books?id=5m...=baUfUP7UKIrYtAayzYDQDw&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBQ

 

[CWatters]

I way out of my comfort zone but perhaps..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_crossover

In the 1960s, the first CoII SCO complex was reported by Busch and coworkers,[6] followed by Konig and Madeja in 1967 when they performed extensive magnetic and Mössbauer spectroscopic studies on these complexes and developed the nature of the spin transition in some of the first iron(II) SCO complexes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_crossover#cite_note-stoufer-5