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Revisiting double Dirac delta potential

Quantum Physics 2016-06-14 v4

Abstract

We study a general double Dirac delta potential to show that this is the simplest yet versatile solvable potential to introduce double wells, avoided crossings, resonances and perfect transmission (T=1T=1). Perfect transmission energies turn out to be the critical property of symmetric and anti-symmetric cases wherein these discrete energies are found to correspond to the eigenvalues of Dirac delta potential placed symmetrically between two rigid walls. For well(s) or barrier(s), perfect transmission [or zero reflectivity, R(E)R(E)] at energy E=0E=0 is non-intuitive. However, earlier this has been found and called "threshold anomaly". Here we show that it is a critical phenomena and we can have 0R(0)<1 0 \le R(0)<1 when the parameters of the double delta potential satisfy an interesting condition. We also invoke zero-energy and zero curvature eigenstate (ψ(x)=Ax+B\psi(x)=Ax+B) of delta well between two symmetric rigid walls for R(0)=0R(0)=0. We resolve that the resonant energies and the perfect transmission energies are different and they arise differently.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07726,
  title  = {Revisiting double Dirac delta potential},
  author = {Zafar Ahmed and Sachin Kumar and Mayank Sharma and Vibhu Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07726},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 8 Figures and 1 Table. Figure 2 changed

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