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We investigate potential scattering and tunneling dynamics of a particle wavepacket evolving according to the relativistic Schr\"odinger equation (also known as the Salpeter equation). The tunneling properties of the Salpeter equation…

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A non-stationary method for tunneling description of non-relativistic particles and photons through a barrier on the basis of consideration of the multiple internal reflections of vawe packets in relation of barrier boundaries is presented.…

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It is shown that evolution of an open quantum system can be exactly described in terms of wave function which obeys Schrodinger equation with randomly varying parameters whose statistics is universally determined by separate dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

One-dimensional time-independent Schr\"odinger equation is solved for the asymmetric Hulth\'{e}n potential. Reflection and transmission coefficients and bound state solutions are obtained in terms of the hypergeometric functions. It is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Altuğ Arda , Oktay Aydoğdu , Ramazan Sever

We review recent progress in analysing wave scattering in systems with both intrinsic chaos and/or disorder and internal losses, when the scattering matrix is no longer unitary. By mapping the problem onto a nonlinear supersymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. V. Fyodorov , D. V. Savin , H. -J. Sommers

We study the evolution of a wave packet impinging onto a one dimensional potential barrier. The transmission and reflection times discussed in the literature for stationary states do not correspond to the times required for the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrea Begliuomini , Luciano Bracci

Characterizing distinct electron wave packets is a basic task for solid-state electron quantum optics with applications in quantum metrology and sensing. A important circuit element for this task is a non-stationary potential barrier than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Elina Locane , Piet W. Brouwer , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

We present an exact solution to the one-dimensional (1-D) scattering-from-a-barrier problem for an incident neutron described by a wave packet. As an aid to presenting our approach, we spend some time on a basic review of how wave packets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 N. F. Berk

We consider bound and scattering states of the one-dimensional dimer formed by two coupled non-identical atoms when one of them also interacts with the zero-range potential located at the origin. By calculating the dimer localized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 N. Shypka , O. Hryhorchak , V. Pastukhov

It is shown that the Stone-von Neumann theorem is inapplicable to scattering a quantum nonrelativistic particle on a one-dimensional "short-range" potential barrier, since the unboundedness of the position operator plays here a crucial…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 N. L. Chuprikov

By expressing the time-independent Schrodinger equation in one dimension as a system of two first-order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is…

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We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Lepri , Giulio Casati

The reflection time, during which a particle is in the classically forbidden region, is described by the trajectory representation for reflection by a semi-infinite rectangular barrier. The Schr\"odinger wave function has microstates for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Edward R. Floyd

In quantum mechanics textbooks, a single-particle scattering theory is introduced. In the present work, a generalized scattering theory is presented, which can be in principle applied to the scattering problems of arbitrary number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Huai-Yu Wang

A class of above-barrier quantum-scattering problems is shown to provide an experimentally-accessible platform for studying $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Schr\"odinger equations that exhibit spontaneous $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry breaking despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Micheline B. Soley , Carl M. Bender , A. Douglas Stone

We derive analytic expressions of the recursive solutions to the Schr\"{o}dinger's equation by means of a cutoff potential technique for one-dimensional piecewise constant potentials. These solutions provide a method for accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hwasung Lee , Y. J. Lee

A known limitation of time-dependent mean-field approaches is a lack of quantum tunneling for collective motions such as in sub-barrier fusion reactions. As a first step toward a solution, a time-dependent model is considered using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Akira Ono

The particle approach to one-dimensional potential scattering is applied to non relativistic tunnelling between two, three and four identical barriers. We demonstrate as expected that the infinite sum of particle contributions yield the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Stefano De Leo , Pietro Rotelli