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Currently there is no general theory of quantum tunnelling of a particle through a potential barrier which is compatible with QFT. We present a complete calculation of tunnelling amplitudes for a scalar field for some simple potentials…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Rosemary Zielinski , Cedric Simenel , Patrick McGlynn

We study the temporal aspects of quantum tunneling as manifested in time-of-arrival experiments in which the detected particle tunnels through a potential barrier. In particular, we present a general method for constructing temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

It is well-known that the quantum tunneling makes conventional perturbation series non-Borel summable. We use this fact reversely and attempt to extract the decay width of the false-vacuum from the actual perturbation series of the vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Suzuki , Hirofumi Yasuta

We report on the first direct observation of coherent control of single particle tunneling in a strongly driven double well potential. In our setup atoms propagate in a periodic arrangement of double wells allowing the full control of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Kierig , U. Schnorrberger , A. Schietinger , J. Tomkovic , M. K. Oberthaler

The paper presents an adaptive over-relaxation method for calculating the electric potential and field intensity, for a complex tunnel transistor structure involving a split gate and a shielding boundary. The accuracy and speed of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Sever Spanulescu

We present new results on quantum tunneling between deep potential wells, in the presence of a strong constant magnetic field. We construct a family of double well potentials containing examples for which the low-energy eigenvalue splitting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

The double-well potential is a good example, where we can compute the splitting in the bound state energy of the system due to the tunneling effect with various methods, namely WKB or instanton calculations. All these methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Fatih Erman , O. Teoman Turgut

We consider the problem of learning an interpretable potential energy function from a Hamiltonian system's trajectories. We address this problem for classical, separable Hamiltonian systems. Our approach first constructs a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Harish S. Bhat

False vacuum decay in field theory may be formulated as a boundary value problem in Euclidean space. In a previous work, we studied its solution in single scalar field theories with quadratic gravity and used it to find obstructions to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-22 Silvia Vicentini , Massimiliano Rinaldi

Path-integral approach in imaginary and complex time has been proven successful in treating the tunneling phenomena in quantum mechanics and quantum field theories. Latest developments in this field, the proper valley method in imaginary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideaki Aoyama , Toshiyuki Harano , Hisashi Kikuchi , Ikuo Okouchi , Masatoshi Sato , Shinya Wada

We use an one dimensional model of a square barrier embedded in an infinite potential well to demonstrate that tunneling leads to a complex behavior of the wave function and that the degree of complexity may be quantified by use of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Ofir Flom , Asher Yahalom , Haggai Zilberberg , L. P. Horwitz , Jacob Levitan

Quantum tunneling of the ground and first excited states in a quantum superposition driven by a novel analytical configuration of a double-well (DW) potential is investigated. Symmetric and asymmetric potentials are considered as to support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Alex E. Bernardini , Mariana Chinaglia

A real tunneling solution is an instanton for the Hartle-Hawking path integral with vanishing extrinsic curvature (vanishing ``momentum'') at the boundary. Since the final momentum is fixed, its conjugate cannot be specified freely;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

The quantum mechanical tunneling through multiple quantum barriers is a long-standing and well-known problem. Three methods proposed earlier to calculate the tunneling probabilities and energy splitting: (1). Instanton Method (2) WKb…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-08 Jatindranath Gain

The analysis of the extremal structure of the scalar potentials of gauged maximally extended supergravity models in five, four, and three dimensions, and hence the determination of possible vacuum states of these models is a computationally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Fischbacher

The effective potential is a widely used phenomenological tool to investigate phase transitions occurring in the early Universe at finite temperature. In the standard perturbative treatment the potential becomes complex in some region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Károly Seller

We study an electron that interacts with phonons or other linear or nonlinear excitations as it resonantly tunnels. The method we use is based on mapping a many-body problem in a large variational space exactly onto a one-body problem. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Bonca , S. A. Trugman

We present a new method for renormalisation group improvement of the effective potential of a quantum field theory with an arbitrary number of scalar fields. The method amounts to solving the renormalisation group equation for the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Leonardo Chataignier , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt , Bogumila Swiezewska

Inspired by new trends in atomtronics, cold atoms devices and Bose-Einstein condensate dynamics, we apply a general technique of N=4 extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics to isospectral Hamiltonians with triple-well potentials, i.e.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 V. P. Berezovoj , M. I. Konchatnij , A. J. Nurmagambetov

We develop the semiclassical method of complex trajectories in application to chaotic dynamical tunneling. First, we suggest a systematic numerical technique for obtaining complex tunneling trajectories by the gradual deformation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , S. M. Sibiryakov