Time dependence of evanescent quantum waves

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 023808-023801

  Muga, J G ^a,b   Buttiker M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FREQUENCY BAND LIMITED SOURCES; MONOCHROMATIC WAVE; QUANTUM EVANESCENT WAVES; TIME DEPENDENCE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0342409372     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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