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Tunneling in Fractional Quantum Mechanics

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the tunneling through delta and double delta potentials in fractional quantum mechanics. After solving the fractional Schr\"odinger equation for these potentials, we calculate the corresponding reflection and transmission coefficients. These coefficients have a very interesting behaviour. In particular, we can have zero energy tunneling when the order of the Riesz fractional derivative is different from 2. For both potentials, the zero energy limit of the transmission coefficient is given by T0=cos2π/α\mathcal{T}_0 = \cos^2{\pi/\alpha}, where α\alpha is the order of the derivative (1<α21 < \alpha \leq 2).

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@article{arxiv.1011.1948,
  title  = {Tunneling in Fractional Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira and Jayme Vaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1948},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 3 figures. Revised version; accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

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