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We study tunneling of massless particles through quantum horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole where quantum gravity effects are taken into account. These effects are encoded in the existence of natural cutoffs as a minimal length, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Kourosh Nozari , S. Saghafi

Tunnelling of material particles through a classically impenetrable barrier constitutes one of the hallmark effects of quantum physics. When interactions between the particles compete with their mobility through a tunnel junction,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Foelling , S. Trotzky , P. Cheinet , M. Feld , R. Saers , A. Widera , T. Mueller , I. Bloch

We investigate quantum tunneling in the theory of a complex scalar field with a global $U(1)$ symmetry when the charge density of the initial configuration does not vanish. We discuss the possible final configurations and set up the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kimyeong Lee

We use path-integrals to derive a general expression for the semiclassical approximation to the partition function of a one-dimensional quantum-mechanical system. Our expression depends solely on ordinary integrals which involve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

We report the results of theoretical investigations of tunneling current noise spectra in a wide range of applied bias voltage. Localized states of individual impurity atoms play an important role in tunneling current noise formation. It…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova

Tunnelling between degenerate vacuua is allowed in finite-volume Quantum Field Theory, and features remarkable energetic properties, which result from the competition of different dominant configurations in the partition function. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Jean Alexandre , Drew Backhouse

We consider a phase-coherent system of two parallel quantum wires that are coupled via a tunneling barrier of finite length. The usual perturbative treatment of tunneling fails in this case, even in the diffusive limit, once the length L of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Boese , Michele Governale , A. Rosch , U. Zuelicke

We investigate quantum tunneling in smooth symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. Exact solutions for the ground and first excited states are used to study the dynamics. We introduce Wigner's quasi-probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

Back reaction of the particle creation on the quantum tunneling process is analyzed in real time formalism. We use quantum potential method in which whole quantum dynamics is exactly projected to a classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fumiaki Shibata , Masahiro Morikawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Masahide Yamaguchi

We present a simple and intuitive description of both, the Schwinger effect and false vacuum decay through bubble nucleation, as tunneling problems in one-dimensional relativistic quantum mechanics. Both problems can be described by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Wen-Yuan Ai , Marco Drewes

Bohmian mechanics allows us to understand quantum systems in the light of other quantum traits than the well-known ones (coherence, diffraction, interference, tunneling, discreteness, entanglement, etc.). Here the discussion focusses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 A. S. Sanz

We introduce a model that explains the phenomenon of correlation-assisted tunneling and puts it in a broader context. This model assumes the existence of an effective force of pure quantum nature between nearby fragments of correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Tarek A. Elsayed

One-body quantum tunneling to continuum is treated via the two-potential approach, dividing the tunneling potential into external and internal parts. We show that corrections to this approach can be minimized by taking the separation radius…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 S. A. Gurvitz , P. B. Semmes , W. Nazarewicz , T. Vertse

We explore dissipative quantum tunnelling, a phenomenon central to various physical and chemical processes, using a double-well potential model. This paper aims to bridge gaps in understanding the crossover from thermal activation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman

There remains the old question of how long a quantum particle takes to tunnel through a potential barrier higher than its incident kinetic energy. In this article a solution of the question is proposed on the basis of a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-26 Wang Guowen

We describe a quantum particle constrained on a catenoid, employing an effective description of quantum mechanics based on expected values of observables and quantum dispersions. We obtain semiclassical trajectories for particles,…

A simple methodology is suggested for the efficient calculation of certain central potentials having singularities. The generalized pseudospectral method used in this work facilitates {\em nonuniform} and optimal spatial discretization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amlan K. Roy

We study theoretically a quantum dot in the quantum Hall regime that is strongly coupled to a single lead via a point contact. We find that even when the transmission through the point contact is perfect, important features of the Coulomb…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hangmo Yi , C. L. Kane

In this paper we study the tunneling using a background independent (polymer) quantization scheme. We show that at low energies, for the tunneling through a single potential barrier, the polymer transmission coefficient and the polymer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 A. Martín-Ruiz , E. Chan-López , A. Carbajal-Domínguez , J. Bernal

We show in spatially one dimensional Madelung fluid that a simple requirement on local stability of the maximum of quantum probability density will, if combined with the global scale invariance of quantum potential, lead to a class of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 Agung Budiyono