Talk:Rydberg Atoms

In discussions among Condensed Matter Nuclear Science researchers, the topic of Rydberg matter came up, and research by Holmlid et al, appearing to demonstrate the existence of ultradense deuterium at an interatomic distance of 2.3 pm, which would imply a density of 130,000 g/cm. This is truly remarkable, with many implications. I'd like to create a resource here on Rydberg Matter. At first, it was a complete mystery to me, buried in papers full of equations relating I don't know what to I don't know what. The resource here may be quite good, but communicates little to me. What are Rydberg atoms? How do we know they exist? And, then, what do they do?

There appears to be some possibility that Rydberg matter may be part of an explanation of reported Cold fusion phenomena. I'm skeptical, but .... until we know what CF is, it's difficult to rule out any approach to an explanation.

So, how about a description of Rydberg atoms and matter for the lay reader? --Abd (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 19 July 2015 (UTC)