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Foundations of Physics Letters

Multiple Internal Reflections During Particle and Photon Tunneling

Fabio Cardone A, Sergei P. Maydanyuk, R. Mignani, V. S. Olkhovsky

Published Aug 28, 2006• 18 citations
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10.1007/s10702-006-0903-y

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