Published April 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Complex tunneling dynamics

Creators

  • 1. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan (China)

Description

Tunneling dynamics and tunneling trajectories are modeled exactly by complex-extended Hamilton-Jacobi formulation in this paper. It is found that the wave-like properties of tunneling particles, such as reflection, refraction, and transmission resonance, can be identified and explained in terms of particle's motion in complex space with the tunneling time defined as the usual sense of classical time. Following the complex trajectories determined by the complex Hamilton equations of motion, we can connect classical trajectories smoothly with tunneling trajectories using position and velocity continuity at the interface of the media, locate the particle's position at any instant, and find the time spent by a particle within the potential. A microscopic tunneling model is also developed to explain the probabilistic nature why a particle with the same incident conditions sometimes transmits the potential and sometimes is reflected from the potential

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2006.04.060;
PII
S0960-0779(06)00424-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 312-345
ISSN
0960-0779

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38014918
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPLEX MANIFOLDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS; POTENTIALS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; TRAJECTORIES; TUNNEL EFFECT
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

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