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The measurement of the tunneling time (T-time) in today's attosecond and strong field (low-frequency) experiments, despite its controversial discussion, offers a fruitful opportunity to understand time measurement and the time in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Ossama Kullie

We present measurements of the time-dependent fluctuations in electrical current in a voltage-biased tunnel junction. We were able to simultaneously extract the first three moments of the tunnel current counting statistics. Detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 Yu. Bomze , G. Gershon , D. Shovkun , L. S. Levitov , M. Reznikov

We propose a model for anomalous transport in inhomogeneous environments, such as fractured rocks, in which particles move only along pre-existing self-similar curves (cracks). The stochastic Loewner equation is used to efficiently generate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-13 A. Zoia , Y. Kantor , M. Kardar

Tunneling time in attosecond and strong field experiments is one of the most controversial issues in today's research, because of its importance to the theory of time, the time operator and the time-energy uncertainty relation in quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Ossama Kullie

The waiting time distribution $w(\tau)$, i.e. the probability for a delay $\tau$ between two subsequent transition (`jumps') of particles, is a statistical tool in (quantum) transport. Using generalized Master equations for systems coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-31 Tobias Brandes

In this work we revisit the Salecker-Wigner-Peres clock formalism and show that it can be directly applied to the phenomenon of tunneling. Then we apply this formalism to the determination of the tunneling time of a non relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Marcos Calçada , José T. Lunardi , Luiz A. Manzoni

We give a detailed mathematical analysis of the radiative transport limit for the average phase space density of solutions of the Schroedinger equation with time dependent random potential. Our derivation is based on the construction of an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Guillaume Bal , George Papanicolaou , Leonid Ryzhik

Time evolution of tunneling phenomena proceeding in thermal medium is studied using a standard model of environment interaction. A semiclassical probability formula for the particle motion in a metastable state of one dimensional system put…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

In recent years, Couder and collaborators have initiated a series of studies on walking droplets. Experimentally, they found that at frequencies and amplitudes close to the onset of Faraday waves, droplets on the surface of silicone oil can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-19 Chuan-Yu Hung , Ting-Heng Hsieh , Tzay-Ming Hong

We study the decay of two repulsively interacting bosons tunneling through a delta potential barrier by direct numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The solutions are analyzed according to the regions of particle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Sungyun Kim , Joachim Brand

We discuss the propagation of wave packets through interacting environments. Such environments generally modify the dispersion relation or shape of the wave function. To study such effects in detail, we define the distribution function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken-Ichi Aoki , Atsushi Horikoshi , Etsuko Nakamura

We study a stochastic process $X_t$ related to the Bessel and the Rayleigh processes, with various applications in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, finance and other fields. The stochastic differential equation is $dX_t = (nD/X_t) dt…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Edgar Martin , Ulrich Behn , Guido Germano

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

Precisely engineered tunnel junctions exhibit a long sought effect that occurs when the energy of the electron is comparable to the potential energy of the tunneling barrier. The resistance of metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-25 Casey W. Miller , Zhi-Pan Li , Ivan K. Schuller , R. W. Dave , J. M. Slaughter , Johan Akerman

A formally exact expression for the tunneling current, for its separation into specular and diffuse components, and for its directionality, is given for a thick tunnel junction with rough interfaces in terms of the properties of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. B. Walker

Following our work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020)], we discuss a semiclassical description of one-dimensional quantum tunneling through multibarrier potentials in terms of complex time. We start by defining a complex-extended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Pavel Stránský , Milan Šindelka , Pavel Cejnar

We study tunneling in one-dimensional quantum mechanics using the path integral in real time, where solutions of the classical equation of motion live in the complex plane. Analyzing solutions with small (complex) energy, relevant for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Kfir Blum , Omri Rosner

We have studied dynamical properties and quantum tunneling in asymmetric double-well (DW) systems, by solving Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the use of two kinds of spectral methods for initially squeezed Gaussian wavepackets. Time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hideo Hasegawa

We present model calculations for the Landauer conductance of tunnel junctions. The tunneling of free electrons through a rectangular potential barrier is considered. The conductance of a finite number of barriers was calculated using a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Zahn , Ingrid Mertig

Tunneling times in atomic ionization are studied theoretically by a virtual detector approach. A virtual detector is a hypothetical device that allows one to monitor the wave function's density with spatial and temporal resolution during…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Nicolas Teeny , Christoph H. Keitel , Heiko Bauke