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Chemical Physics Letters

Local group velocity and path-delay: semi-classical propagators for the time evolution of Wigner functions in deep tunneling and in dispersive media

Shimshon Kallush, Emmanuel Tannenbaum, Bilha Segev

Published Sep 10, 2004• 0 citations
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10.1016/j.cplett.2004.07.119

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