Reflection above the barrier as tunneling in momentum space
Quantum Physics
2015-05-14 v2
Abstract
Quantum mechanics predicts an exponentially small probability that a particle with energy greater than the height of a potential barrier will nevertheless reflect from the barrier in violation of classical expectations. This process can be regarded as tunneling in momentum space, leading to a simple derivation of the reflection probability.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.4564,
title = {Reflection above the barrier as tunneling in momentum space},
author = {R. L. Jaffe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4564},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to American Journal of Physics. Version 2: MIT preprint number added, typographical error in caption to Figure 2 corrected