Electronic filaments

Abstract

In the one-dimensional world of a flux line beyond Bce, paired evanescent low momentum 0-Landau electron states condense into magnetized bosons of vanishing momentum. I use the results of Rojas et al. within a Coulomb potential and show that magnetic intensities and electron densities sufficient to initiate condensation can be achieved in the shockwaves of cathode hot spots; from unipolar pulses on the surface of a discontinuous micro conductor or cathode tip as a discharge suddenly self-interrupts. Above Bc_e, there are charged electronic vector states that are superconducting and ferromagnetic. Assuming the magnetization of the vacuum within the flux quantized to be free extends the range of stable states. The thinnest filaments have the Compton radius for the effective boson mass. When perturbed,they evolve towards a decaying state with vanishing density at Bc or further condense into composites of higher mass, charge and critical field. Open, almost neutral filament systems with one quantum of flux and several microns in length would be metastable in the Earth's magnetic field and terminated by magnetic monopoles.