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Quantum tunneling of a singular potential

Quantum Physics 2021-07-07 v1

Abstract

Singularity of the potential function makes quantum tunneling problem mathematically underdetermined. To circumvent the difficulties it introduced in physics, a potential singularity cutoff is often used, followed by a reverse limit transition, or is a suitable self-adjoint extension of the Hamiltonian along the entire coordinate axis made. However, both of them somehow affect the singular nature of the problem, and so I discuss here how quantum tunneling will behave if the original singular nature of the Schrodinger equation left untuched. To do this, I use the property of the probability density current that the singularities are mutually destroyed in it. It is found that the mildly singular potential has a finite, but unusual tunneling transparency, in particular, a non-zero value at zero energy of incident particle. The tunneling of one dimensional Coulomb potential exhibits infinitely fast and complete oscillation at the zero energy boundary and a suppresion to zero in the high-energy limit. In the more singular region, the tunneling becomes forbidden, theby repeating the well-known result of the regularized counterparts.

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@article{arxiv.2102.12789,
  title  = {Quantum tunneling of a singular potential},
  author = {A. Zh. Muradyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12789},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

The quantum tunneling of a potential is considered with the preservation of the singular character of the corresponding Scrodinger equation. It is found that that the weakly singular and Coulomb potentials are partially penetrable but reveals non-standard behavior, in particular, accelerating complete oscillations with the approach to the zero energy

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