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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…

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

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 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

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

We study the total transmission of quantum particles satisfying the Klein-Gordon equation through a potential barrier based on the classical wave propagation theory. We deduce an analytical expression for the wave impedance for Klein-Gordon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Kihong Kim

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

Transport through potential barriers in graphene is investigated using a set of metallic gates capacitively coupled to graphene to modulate the potential landscape. When a gate-induced potential step is steep enough, disorder becomes less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-18 N. Stander , B. Huard , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We revisit the problem of quantum tunneling for a particle moving in the continuum, and in the absence of a magnetic field. In all spatial dimensions, we extend previous results to the case where the single-well potential satisfies…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

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

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 study the transmission through single and double ferromagnetic barriers on the surface of a topological insulator. By adjusting the gate voltage and magnetization oreintation, the ferromagnetic barrier can be tuned into various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 Jinhua Gao , Wei-Qiang Chen , Xiao-Yong Feng , X. C. Xie , Fu-Chun Zhang

We study the interplay between an inhomogeneous quantum quench of the external potential in a system of relativistic fermions in one dimension and the well-known Klein tunneling. We find that the large time evolution is characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-25 Leda Bucciantini , Spyros Sotiriadis , Tommaso Macrì

Quantum tunnelling from a tilted, but otherwise periodic potential is studied. Our theoretical and experimental results show that, by controlling the system's parameters, we can engineer the escape rate of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-05 Sandro Wimberger , Donatella Ciampini , Oliver Morsch , Riccardo Mannella , Ennio Arimondo

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 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 have utilized the finite-difference approach to explore electron-tunneling properties in gapped graphene through various electrostatic-potential barriers changing from Gaussian to a triangular envelope function in comparison with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

The transmission of fermions of mass m and energy E through an electrostatic potential barrier of rectangular shape (i.e. supporting an infinite electric field), of height U> E + m - due to the many-body nature of the Dirac equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Paolo Christillin , Emilio d'Emilio

We study Klein tunneling in polariton graphene. We show that the photonic spin-orbit coupling associated with the energy splitting between TE and TM photonic modes can be described as an emergent gauge field. It suppresses the Klein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Dmitry Solnyshkov , Anton Nalitov , Berihu Teklu , Louis Franck , Guillaume Malpuech

The controlling of the transmission in the pseudospin-one Dirac-Weyl systems offers a rich tool to study new concepts of massive Dirac electron tunneling by means of a time-dependent potential. The time-periodic potential is one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-04 Parisa Majari
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