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Observational data imply the presence of superluminal electric currents in pulsar magnetospheres. Such sources are not inconsistent with special relativity; they have already been created in the laboratory. Here we describe the distinctive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-04 Houshang Ardavan , Arzhang Ardavan , Joseph Fasel , John Middleditch , Mario Perez , Andrea Schmidt , John Singleton

The stationary phase method is often employed for computing tunneling {\em phase} times of analytically-continuous {\em gaussian} or infinite-bandwidth step pulses which collide with a potential barrier. The indiscriminate utilization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alex E. Bernardini

We study an active random walker model in which a particle's motion is determined by a self-generated field. The field encodes information about the particle's path history. This leads to either self-attractive or self-repelling behavior.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Grima

We describe a new mechanism of tunneling between period-two vibrational states of a weakly nonlinear parametrically modulated oscillator. The tunneling results from resonant transitions induced by the fast oscillating terms conventionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Peano , M. Marthaler , M. I. Dykman

In this work the influence of the electric and magnetic fields over a tunneling particle in a rectangular potential barrier is shown, we have taken into account the presence of an impurity at the barrier center and the effects of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian A. Zuñiga , O. L. Hernandez-Rosero , S. T. Perez-Merchancano

We compare Hawking radiation in a collapse background with Schwinger pair creation in an electric field. The comparison is driven by the presence of an analogue horizon in the Schwinger case, which causally divides spacetime for classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Anton Ilderton , Karthik Rajeev

Events of giant conductance and anomalies of the phase transmission time for holes, are theoretically investigated within the multicomponent scattering approach. Based on this model, new analytical expressions for unitarity relations in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-20 S. Arias-Laso , L. Diago-Cisneros

We consider a quantum particle in tilted two-dimensional lattices in the tight-binding approximations. We found that for some lattice geometries and certain orientations of the static force with respect to the lattice primary axes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Evgeny N. Bulgakov , Andrey R. Kolovsky

We investigate the transmissions of fermions through gapped graphene structures by employing a combination of double barrier tilting and a time-oscillating potential. The latter introduces additional sidebands into the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abderrahim El Mouhafid

The present paper examines the possibility of asymmetric effect of the adjacent to barrier physically different media, or anisotropic structure of the barrier itself, on probability of the oppositely directed transitions of current carriers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-25 Sergey Lazarev

We derive an analytical expression for the propagator and the transition path time distribution of a two-dimensional active Brownian particle crossing a parabolic barrier with absorbing boundary conditions at both sides. By taking those of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Michele Caraglio

The resonant transmission of a moving particle which interacts with an one-dimensional array of N delta-function potentials is investigated. A suitable transfer matrix formulation is used to obtain the particle transmission. We give the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Guillermo Cordourier-Maruri , Virendra Gupta , Romeo de Coss

We investigate the short-time dynamics of a delta-function potential barrier on an initially confined wave-packet. There are mainly two conclusions: A) At short times the probability density of the first particles that passed through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Er'el Granot , Avi Marchewka

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.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kleckner , A. Ron

We analytically study the linear propagation of arbitrarily shaped light-pulses through an absorbing medium with a narrow transparency-window or through a resonant amplifying medium. We point out that, under certain general conditions, the…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-14 Bruno Macke , Bernard Ségard

The propagation of light-pulse with negative group-velocity in a nonlinear medium is studied theoretically. We show that the necessary conditions for these effects to be observable are realized in a three-level $\Lambda$-system interacting…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. G. Ghulghazaryan , Yu. P. Malakyan

Quantum tunnelling, a hallmark phenomenon of quantum mechanics, allows particles to pass through the classically forbidden region. It underpins fundamental processes ranging from nuclear fusion and photosynthesis to the operation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiao-Wen Shang , Jian-Peng Dou , Feng Lu , Sen Lin , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

Quantum tunneling across double potential barriers is studied. With the assumption that the real space is a continuum, it is rigorously proved that large barriers of arbitrary shapes can be penetrated by low-energy particles with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yong Yang

The transfer Hamiltonian tunneling current is derived in a time-dependent density matrix formulation and is used to examine photon-assisted tunneling. Bardeen's tunneling expression arises as the result of first order perturbation theory in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Paul S. Davids , Joshua Shank