Tunnelling time of a Gaussian wave packet through two potential barriers

Central European Journal of Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-350

  Petrillo, Vittoria ^a   Olkhovsky, Vladislav S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Hartman effect; Quantum mechanics; Tunneling times; Tunnelling; Two barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 27444435171     PISSN: 16443608     EISSN: 16443608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/bf02475642     Document Type: Article

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