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The addition of tunnel barriers to open chaotic systems, as well as representing more general physical systems, leads to much richer semiclassical dynamics. In particular, we present here a complete semiclassical treatment for these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jack Kuipers

We investigate electron transport through clean open quantum dots (quantum billiards). We present a semiclassical theory that allows to accurately reproduce quantum transport calculations. Quantitative agreement is reached for individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Iva Brezinova , Ludger Wirtz , Stefan Rotter , Christoph Stampfer , Joachim Burgdorfer

Background: Quantum tunneling in many-body systems is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies in fields ranging from cold atoms to nuclear physics. However, theoretical description of quantum tunneling with strongly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-18 Patrick McGlynn , Cedric Simenel

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

Time evolution of tunneling phenomena in medium is studied using a standard model of environment interaction. A semiclassical formula valid at low, but finite temperatures is derived in the form of integral transform for the reduced Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

The linear conductance of the a small metallic tunnel junction embedded in an electromagnetic environment of arbitrary impedance is determined in the semiclassical limit. Electron tunneling is treated beyond the orthodox theory of Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Goeppert , Hermann Grabert

A standard approach to analyzing tunneling processes in various physical contexts is to use instanton or imaginary time path techniques. For systems in which the tunneling takes place in a time dependent setting, the standard methods are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Per Kraus

Quantum Tunneling is ubiquitous across different fields, from quantum chemical reactions, and magnetic materials to quantum simulators and quantum computers. While simulating the real-time quantum dynamics of tunneling is infeasible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Guglielmo Mazzola , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Matthias Troyer

Starting with the equivalence of the rest energy of a particle to an amount of the radiant energy characterized by a frequency, in addition to the usual relativistic transformation rules leading to the wave-particle duality, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Demir

We investigate the semiclassical mechanism of tunneling process in non-integrable systems. The significant role of complex-phase-space chaos in the description of the tunneling process is elucidated by studying a simple scattering map…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Onishi , A. Shudo , K. S. Ikeda , K. Takahashi

We discuss the semiclassical approximation to transport problems in quantum chaotic systems. The figures of merit are moments of the transmission matrix and of the time delay matrix. After reviewing a few results obtained by treating these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Marcel Novaes

We contrast two sets of conditions that govern the transition in which classical dynamics emerges from the evolution of a quantum system. The first was derived by considering the trajectories seen by an observer (dubbed the ``strong''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. Greenbaum , Kurt Jacobs , Bala Sundaram

This paper presents a concise review of the quantum tunneling approach to Hawking radiation, covering its theoretical foundations, extensions, and experimental efforts. We begin by outlining the Hamilton-Jacobi and Parikh-Wilczek methods,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Sareh Eslamzadeh , Saheb Soroushfar

The ability to tune quantum tunneling is key for achieving selectivity in manipulation of individual particles in quantum technology applications. In this work we count electron escape events out of a time-dependent confinement potential,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Austris Akmentinsh , David Reifert , Thomas Weimann , Klaus Pierz , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs , Niels Ubbelohde

In the deformed quantum mechanics with a minimal length, one WKB connection formula through a turning point is derived. We then use it to calculate tunnelling rates through potential barriers under the WKB approximation. Finally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Xiaobo Guo , Bochen Lv , Jun Tao , Peng Wang

We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Mark P. Hertzberg , Masaki Yamada

The decay rates of quasistable states in quantum field theories are usually calculated using instanton methods. Standard derivations of these methods rely in a crucial way upon deformations and analytic continuations of the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 Anders Andreassen , David Farhi , William Frost , Matthew D. Schwartz

Quantum deformations of sets of points of the real and the complexified projective line are constructed. These deformations depend on the deformation parameter q and certain further parameters \lambda_{ij}. The deformations for which the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Frank Leitenberger

We present a trajectory-based semiclassical calculation of the full counting statistics of quantum transport through chaotic cavities, in the regime of many open channels. Our method to obtain the $m$th moment of the density of transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 G. Berkolaiko , J. M. Harrison , M. Novaes

A formalism is developed for describing approximate classical behaviour in finite (but possibly large) quantum systems. This is done in terms of a structure common to classical and quantum mechanics, viz. a Poisson space with a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. P. Landsman