Universal potential-barrier penetration by initially confined wave packets

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Granot, Er'el ^a   Marchewka, Avi ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Kibbutzim College of Education   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

POTENTIAL-BARRIER PENETRATION;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 34547154634     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.012708     Document Type: Article

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