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Antiparticle creation in tunneling

Quantum Physics 2013-10-07 v1

Abstract

We study particle interaction with a Dirac step potential. In the standard Klein energy zone, the hypothesis of Klein pair production predicts the existence of free/oscillatory antiparticles. In this paper, we discuss the tunneling energy zone characterized by evanescent wave functions in the classically forbidden region. We ask the question of the nature, particle or antiparticle, of the densities within the classically forbidden region. The answer to this question is relevant to the correct form of the reflection coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1123,
  title  = {Antiparticle creation in tunneling},
  author = {Stefano De Leo and Pietro Rotelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1123},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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