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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

It is supposed the existence of a curved graphene sheet with the geometry of a Bour surface $B_{n}$, such as the catenoid (or helicoid), $B_{0}$, and the classical Enneper surface, $B_{2}$, among others. In particular, in this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Víctor A. González-Domínguez , Juan A Reyes-Nava , Pavel Castro-Villarreal

Under certain hypothesis of smallness of the regular potential $\mathbf{V}$, we prove that the Dirac operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$ coupled with a suitable re-scaling of $\mathbf{V}$ converges in the strong resolvent sense to the Hamiltonian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Albert Mas , Fabio Pizzichillo

We consider simple models of tunneling of an object with intrinsic degrees of freedom. This important problem was not extensively studied until now, in spite of numerous applications in various areas of physics and astrophysics. We show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. A. Bertulani , V. V. Flambaum , V. G. Zelevinsky

We consider a particle bound to a two-dimensional plane and a double well potential, subject to a perpendicular uniform magnetic field . The energy difference between the lowest two eigenvalues--the eigenvalue splitting--is related to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

A simple example of especially constructed potential barrier enables to show analytically (not numerically) the existence of tunneling effect for a Sommerfeld particle.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

Graphene electrons feature a pair of massless Dirac cones of opposite pseudospin chirality at two valleys. Klein tunneling refers to the intriguing capability of these chiral electrons to penetrate through high and wide potential barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao

We consider electrostatically coupled quantum dots in topological insulators, otherwise confined and gapped by a magnetic texture. By numerically solving the (2+1) Dirac equation for the wave packet dynamics, we extract the energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christian Ertler , Martin Raith , Jaroslav Fabian

A semiclassical theory is developed and compared to experiments on the tunneling resonance spectrum for a quantum well in magnetic field tilted with respect to the tunneling direction. As the tilt angle is increased from zero the classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 E. E. Narimanov , A. Douglas Stone

Let L be a line bundle over a compact complex manifold X and endow L and TX with Hermitian metrics. Our main result provides a formula for the average distribution of the exponentially small eigenvalues of the corresponding Dolbeault…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Robert J. Berman

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of normally incident Dirac electrons across a potential barrier, has been widely studied in graphene and explored to design switches, albeit indirectly. We show that Klein tunneling maybe easier to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Yunkun Xie , Yaohua Tan , Avik W. Ghosh

Reflection and transmission of electrons scattered by a rectangular potential step in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the electron beam is described with the use of the Dirac equation. It is shown that in addition to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

We derive a semiclassical formula for the tunneling current of electrons trapped in a potential well which can tunnel into and across a wide quantum well. The calculations idealize an experimental situation where a strong magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. B. Bogomolny , D. C. Rouben

This paper investigates the problem of a relativistic Dirac half integer spin free particle tunneling through a rectangular quantum-mechanical barrier. If the energy difference between the barrier and the particle is positive, and the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Luca Nanni

We propose the quantum simulation of the Dirac equation with potentials, allowing the study of relativistic scaterring and the Klein tunneling. This quantum relativistic effect permits a positive-energy Dirac particle to propagate through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 J. Casanova , J. J. Garcia-Ripoll , R. Gerritsma , C. F. Roos , E. Solano

The path is explored between one-dimensional scattering through Dirac-$\delta$ walls and one-dimensional quantum field theories defined on a finite length interval with Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is found that two $\delta$'s are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 J. Mateos Guilarte , Jose M. Muñoz-Castañeda

The de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave interpretation of quantum mechanics is shown to provide a consistent explanation for a single relativistic particle (more accurately, a single particle process since pair production is addressed). This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 John F. Dodaro

We explore the dynamics of relativistic quantum waves in a potential step by using an exact solution to the Klein-Gordon equation with a point source initial condition. We show that in both the propagation, and Klein-tunneling regimes, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Fernando Nieto-Guadarrama , Jorge Villavicencio

The Klein paradox of Klein-Gordon (KG) equation is discussed to show that KG equation is self-consistent even at one-particle level and the wave function for antiparticle is uniquely determined by the reasonable explanation of Klein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-jiong Ni , Weimin Zhou , Jun Yan

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…