Role of top and under-the-barrier complex transmission poles for the delay time in single barrier tunneling

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Villavicencio, Jorge ^a   Garcia Calderón, Gastón ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY CONTROL;

BARRIER TUNNELLING; ENERGY POLES; TRANSMISSION POLES; WAVE TUNNEL;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 19644400940     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.032107     Document Type: Article

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