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A semiclassical theory is developed and compared to experiments on the tunneling resonance spectrum for a quantum well in magnetic field tilted with respect to the tunneling direction. As the tilt angle is increased from zero the classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 E. E. Narimanov , A. Douglas Stone

We address a foundational question in quantum mechanics: Can a particle be directly found in a classically forbidden virtual state? We instantiate this conceptual question by investigating the traversal of electrons through a tunnel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Alok Nath Singh , Bibek Bhandari , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

Tunneling is one of the most bizarre phenomena in quantum mechanics. An attempt to understand it led to the next natural question of how long does a particle need to tunnel a barrier. The latter gave rise to several definitions such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 N. G. Kelkar

We follow up the work, where in light of the Picard-Lefschetz thimble approach, we split up the real-time path integral into two parts: the initial density matrix part which can be represented via an ensemble of initial conditions, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg

Quantum tunneling in a many-body system is much more non-trivial than that in a one-body system. The most characteristic phenomenon is the mixed tunneling, which has been studied in many fields for decades. For instance, let us consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Yutaro Shoji

The application of a classical approach to various quantum problems - the secular perturbation approach to quantization of a hydrogen atom in external fields and a helium atom, the adiabatic switching method for calculation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Evgeni A. Solov'ev

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling is reviewed and an overview of applying approximate methods for studying this effect is given. An approach to a time-dependent formalism is proposed in one dimension and generalized to higher dimensions.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Paul Bracken

Quantum tunneling is a fundamental quantum mechanical effect involved in plenty of physical phenomena. Its control would impact these phenomena and the technologies based on them. We show that the quantum tunneling probability through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Miguel A. Porras , Nilo Mata , Isabel Gonzalo

Quantum tunneling, a phenomenon which has no counterpart in classical physics, is the quantum-mechanical process by which a microscopic particle can transition through a potential barrier even when the energy of the incident particle is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Raul J. Martin-Palma

Quasiclassical methods are used to define dynamical tunneling times in models of quantum cosmological bounces. These methods provide relevant new information compared with the traditional treatment of quantum tunneling by means of tunneling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-18 Martin Bojowald , Brenda Jones

Prompted by the longstanding interpretational controversy in quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling is heuristically addressed within the Everettian quantum multiverse. In this framework, the universal wavefunction splits into decohered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. E. Ennadifi

The existence of quantum tunneling opens the possibility of a sudden spatial relocalization of a system after a minor modification of its parameters. Such a quantum analogue of the Thom's classical catastrophe would manifest itself,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Miloslav Znojil

Quasiclassical methods for non-adiabatic quantum dynamics can reveal new features of quantum effects, such as tunneling evolution, that are harder to reveal in standard treatments based on wave functions of stationary states. Here, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Martin Bojowald , Pip Petersen

The notion of trajectory of an individual particle is strictly inhibited in quantum mechanics because of the uncertainty principle. Nonetheless, the weak value, which has been proposed as a novel and measurable quantity definable to any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Takuya Mori , Izumi Tsutsui

This work will incorporate a few related tools for addressing the conceptual difficulties arising from sewing together classical and quantum mechanics: deterministic operators, weak measurements and post-selection. Weak Measurement, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

We study the interplay between an inhomogeneous quantum quench of the external potential in a system of relativistic fermions in one dimension and the well-known Klein tunneling. We find that the large time evolution is characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-25 Leda Bucciantini , Spyros Sotiriadis , Tommaso Macrì

We revisit the path integral description of quantum tunneling and lay the groundwork for its generalization to excites states through real-time path integral techniques. For clarity, we focus on the simple toy model of a point particle in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Thomas Steingasser , David I. Kaiser

We introduce the concept of partial and full tunneling processes to explain the seemingly contradictory non-zero and vanishing tunneling times often reported in the literature. Our analysis starts by considering the traversal time of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Philip Caesar M. Flores , Dean Alvin L. Pablico , Eric A. Galapon

Quantum computers are the promising candidates for simulation of large quantum systems, which is a daunting task to perform in a classical computer. Here, we report the experimental realization of quantum tunneling of a single particle…

The interplay between chaotic tunneling and dynamical localization in mixed phase space is investigated. Semiclassical analysis using complex classical orbits reveals that tunneling through torus regions and transport in chaotic regions are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-09 Akiyuki Ishikawa , Atushi Tanaka , Akira Shudo