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Klein tunneling is a counterintuitive quantum-mechanical phenomenon, predicting perfect transmission of relativistic particles through higher energy barriers. This phenomenon was shown to be supported at normal incidence in graphene due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Lea Sirota

We consider the Klein-Gordon equation on two half-axes connected at their origins. We add a potential that is constant but different on each branch. In a previous paper, we studied the L-infinity-time decay via H\"ormander's version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Felix Ali Mehmeti , Robert Haller-Dintelmann , Virginie Régnier

We obtain the solutions for the tunneling zone of a one-dimensional electrostatic potential in the relativistic (Dirac to Klein-Gordon) wave equation regime when the incoming wave packet exhibits the possibility of being almost totally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of a normally incident relativistic particle through an energy barrier, has been tested in various electronic, photonic, and phononic systems. Its potential in guiding and filtering classical waves…

Dirac particles can undergo perfect transmission through a sufficiently high potential barrier in the Klein zone. Although the perfect Klein tunneling (often referred to as the Klein paradox) is similar to the non-relativistic resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Xu Zhang , Qiang Gu

We obtain the exact solution of the Klein-Gordon equation describing the propagation of a particle in two regions of different constant magnetic field, separated by an infinite plane wall. The continuity of the wave function and of its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaime Besprosvany , Alejandro Ayala

Klein tunneling stands as a fundamental probe of relativistic quantum transport in two-dimensional materials. We investigate this phenomenon in quadratic band-touching systems, where the Hilbert-Schmidt quantum distance plays a central role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sang-Hoon Han , Jun-Won Rhim , Chang-geun Oh

We investigate Klein tunneling through finite potential barriers with space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field equations. We find that no particle actually tunnels through a finite supercritical barrier, even in the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 M. Alkhateeb , A. Matzkin

The Klein-Gordon equation in the presence of a spatially one-dimensional Hulth\'en potential is solved exactly and the scattering solutions are obtained in terms of hypergeometric functions. The transmission coefficient is derived by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-16 Jian You Guo , Xiang Zheng Fang , Chuan Mei Xie

We adapt the semiclassical technique, as used in the context of instanton transitions in quantum field theory, to the description of tunneling transmissions at finite energies through potential barriers by complex quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We develop a new variant of the wave-packet analysis and solve the tunneling time problem for one particle. Our approach suggests an individual asymptotic description of the quantum subensembles of transmitted and reflected particles both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

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

We employ the tight-binding propagation method to study Klein tunneling and quantum interference in large graphene systems. With this efficient numerical scheme, we model the propagation of a wave packet through a potential barrier and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 R. Logemann , K. J. A. Reijnders , T. Tudorovskiy , M. I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

We show that space-time modulation of electromagnetic potentials enables Klein tunneling far below the static threshold. The derived kinematics reveal oblique transitions that can connect opposite-energy continua without requiring their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Furkan Ok , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

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 one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation is investigated with the most general Lorentz structure for the external potentials. The analysis and calculation of the reflection and transmission coefficients for the scattering of particles in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatiana R. Cardoso , Antonio S. de Castro

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

We study the tunneling zone solutions of a one-dimensional electrostatic potential for the relativistic (Dirac to Klein-Gordon) wave equation when the incoming wave packet exhibits the possibility of being almost totally transmitted through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex E. Bernardini

We analyse a little known aspect of the Klein paradox. A Klein-Gordon boson appears to be able to cross a supercritical rectangular barrier without being reflected, while spending there a negative amount of time. The transmission mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 X. Gutiérrez de la Cal , M. Alkhateeb , M. Pons , A. Matzkin , D. Sokolovski

It is shown that in the case of the one-particle one-dimensional scattering problem for a given time-independent potential, for each state of the whole quantum ensemble of identically prepared particles, there is an unique pair of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov
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