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Evanescent Waves are Not Superluminal

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is demonstrated that an electromagnetic pulse, which is made to tunnel trough a barrier, would not be photo-detected before an identical pulse, which travels the same distance in vacuum.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9804061,
  title  = {Evanescent Waves are Not Superluminal},
  author = {M. Kleckner and A. Ron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9804061},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures