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The problem of inter-band tunneling in a semiconductor (Zener breakdown) in a nonstationary and homogeneous electric field is solved exactly. Using the exact analytical solution, the approximation based on classical trajectories is studied.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Ivlev

We investigate relativistic wavepacket dynamics for an electron tunneling through a potential barrier employing space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) equations. We prove by linking the QFT property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Alkhateeb , X. Gutierrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski , A. Matzkin

A new pathway of strong laser field induced ionization of an atom is identified which is based on recollisions under the tunneling barrier. With an amended strong field approximation, the interference of the direct and the under-the-barrier…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Effect of weak disorder on tunneling through a potential barrier is studied analytically. A diagrammatic approach based on the specific behavior of subbarrier wave functions is developed. The problem is shown to be equivalent to that of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Freilikher , M. Pustilnik , I. Yurkevich

We propose a scheme of the exact fast-forwarding of standard quantum dynamics for a charged particle. The present idea allows the acceleration of both the amplitude and phase of the wave function throughout the fast-forward time range and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Anvar Khujakulov , Katsuhiro Nakamura

For a single potential barrier, the barrier penetrability can be inverted based on the WKB approximation to yield the barrier thickness. We apply this method to heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies well below the Coulomb barrier and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Hagino , N. Rowley

A model for quantum tunnelling of a cluster comprising A identical particles, coupled by oscillator-type potential, through short-range repulsive potential barriers is introduced for the first time in the new symmetrized-coordinate…

Quantum tunneling of domain walls out of an impurity potential in a mesoscopic ferromagnetic sample is investigated. Using improved expressions for the domain wall mass and for the pinning potential, we find that the cross-over temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hans-Benjamin Braun , Jordan Kyriakidis , Daniel Loss

The fusion of two interacting heavy ions traditionally has been interpreted in terms of the penetration of the projectile into the target. Observed rates well below the Coulomb barrier are considerably lower than estimates obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B. G. Giraud , S. Karataglidis , K. Amos , B. A. Robson

Process of quantum tunneling of particles in various physical systems can be effectively controlled even by a weak and slow varying in time electromagnetic signal if to adapt specially its shape to a particular system. During an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-05 B. I. Ivlev

The adsorption and diffusion of hydrogen atoms on Cu(001) are studied using first-principles calculations. By taking into account the contribution of zero-point energy (ZPE), the originally identical barriers are shown to be different for H…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Xiaofan Yu , Yangwu Tong , Yong Yang

The Simmons model is a well-known and widely used model for the elastic tunneling current of a metallic tunnel junction, and fitting it to electrical measurements can be used to estimate thicknesses and heights of the tunnel barriers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ilmo Räisänen , Ilari Maasilta

Azbel' has recently carried out a WKB-analysis of the effects of a nonharmonic time-dependent perturbation embedded in an opaque potential barrier. He suggests the existence of three different transmission regimes: direct tunneling,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. A. Støvneng , A. -P. Jauho

We study the tunnelling trough a potential barrier of the system of two quantum correlated particles. The system is considered in one dimension. The interaction with the barrier and between particles is approximated by $\delta$-potentials.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. A. Avdonin , L. A. Dmitrieva , Yu. A. Kuperin , G. E. Rudin

The fusion dynamic mechanism of heavy-ions at energies near the Coulomb barrier is complicated and still not very clear up to now. Accordingly, a self-consistent method based on the CCFULL calculations has been developed and applied for an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 N. R. Ma , H. M. Jia , C. J. Lin , L. Yang , X. X. Xu , L. J. Sun , F. Yang , Z. D. Wu , H. Q. Zhang , Z. H. Liu , D. X. Wang

A simple approximate solution for the quantum-mechanical quartic oscillator $V= m^2 x^2+g x^4$ in the double-well regime $m^2<0$ at arbitrary $g \geq 0$ is presented. It is based on a combining of perturbation theory near true minima of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander V Turbiner

A hybrid model where the tunneling probability is estimated based on both sudden and adiabatic approaches has been proposed to understand the heavy ion fusion phenomena at deep sub-barrier energies. It is shown that under certain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-18 Ajit Kumar Mohanty

It was recently shown that a generalization of quantum Turing machines (QTMs), in which potentials are associated with elementary steps or transitions of the computation, generates potential distributions along computation paths of states…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul Benioff

We study approximation of embeddings between finite dimensional L_p spaces in the quantum model of computation. For the quantum query complexity of this problem matching (up to logarithmic factors) upper and lower bounds are obtained. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Heinrich

It was proposed recently that the Schr\"odinger wave function can be reconstructed exactly from a discrete superposition of classical action branches weighted by associated classical densities, without semiclassical approximations. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Chong Qi , Mário B. Amaro