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We discuss quantum tunneling between classically BPS saturated solitons in two-dimensional theories with N=2 supersymmetry and a compact space dimension. Genuine BPS states form shortened multiplets of dimension two. In the models we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Binosi , M. Shifman , T. ter Veldhuis

Quantum tunneling remains unexplored in many regimes of many-body quantum physics, including the effect of quantum phase transitions on tunneling dynamics. In general, the quantum phase is a statement about the ground state and has no…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-03 Diego A. Alcala , Marie A. McLain , Lincoln D. Carr

We describe a new method which allows one to evaluate the false vacuum decay rate for a general potential which may depend on an arbitrary number of scalar fields.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Kusenko

We consider coherent tunneling of one-dimensional model systems in non-cyclic or cyclic symmetric double well potentials. Generic potentials are constructed which allow for analytical estimates of the quantum dynamics in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Jörn Manz , Axel Schild , Burkhard Schmidt , Yonggang Yang

The anti self-adjoint operators of coordinate and momentum are introduced and applied in discussion of tunneling through the potential barrier where imaginary value of momentum unavoidably appears. Tunneling through temporal barrier is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Slobodan Prvanović

The kinetic isotope effect (KIE) is the conventional probe for quantum tunneling, yet its composite nature conflates tunneling with zero-point energy and classical kinetics. Here, we introduce the tunneling phase diagram, a machine-learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Xinrui Yang , Zhigang Wang

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

Real-time computation of time-dependent quantum mechanical problems are presented for nuclear many-body problems. Quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion at low energy is described using a time-dependent wave packet. A real-time method of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

Numerical studies are presented to assess error estimates for a separable (Hartree) approximation for dynamically evolving composite quantum systems which exhibit distinct scales defined by their mass and frequency ratios. The relevant…

Instanton theory relates the rate constant for tunneling through a barrier to the periodic classical trajectory on the upturned potential energy surface whose period is $\tau=\hbar/(k_{\rm B}T)$. Unfortunately, the standard theory is only…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Joseph E. Lawrence

We propose a selfconsistent microscopic model of vertical sequential tunneling through a multi-quantum well.The model includes a detailed description of the contacts,uses the Transfer Hamiltonian for expressions of the current and it treats…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ramon Aguado , Gloria Platero , Miguel Moscoso , Luis L. Bonilla

Mainstream flow matching methods typically focus on learning the local velocity field, which inherently requires multiple integration steps during generation. In contrast, Mean Velocity Flow models establish a relationship between the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenrui Ma

Currents across thin insulators are commonly taken as single electrons moving across classically forbidden regions; this independent particle picture is well-known to describe most tunneling phenomena. Examining quantum transport from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgos Fagas , Paul Delaney , James C. Greer

Tunneling through a localized barrier in a one-dimensional interacting electron gas has been studied recently using Luttinger liquid techniques. Stable phases with zero or unit transmission occur, as well as critical points with universal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Eugene Wong , Ian Affleck

Tunneling is an important physical process. The observation that particles surmount a high mountain in spite of the fact that they don't have the necessary energy cannot be explained by classical physics. However, this so called tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Nimtz , A. A. Stahlhofen

The imaginary-time evolution of quantum states is integral to various fields, ranging from natural sciences to classical optimization or machine learning. Since simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution generally requires storing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Giuseppe Carleo , Stefan Woerner

Traditionally quantum tunneling in a static SQUID is studied on the basis of a classical trajectory in imaginary time under a two-dimensional potential barrier. The trajectory connects a potential well and an outer region crossing their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Ivlev

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

We describe a proposal to probe the quantum tunneling mechanism of an individual ion trapped in a double-well electromagnetic potential. The time-evolution of the probability of fluorescence measurement of the electronic ground state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Serra , C. J. Villas-Boas , M. H. Y. Moussa

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