Particle transmission through a time-varying potential barrier

Cui-Lan Zhao

In this paper,transmission coefficient that the micro particle penetrate two potential barriers successively is calculated by solving the stationary schrodinger equation.Our numerical results show that the micro particle could penetrate potential barriers no matter energy of particle is taller or smaller than the height of potential barriers.But the transmission coefficient varies in several different circumstances.Particularly,it may arise resonance transmission in conditions.In a word,the transmission coefficient could changes with the height and width of two potential barriers,and have nothing to do with the distance between two potential barriers.

Rogerio C.T. da Costa

Hao Yu-hua

The transfer matrix and the formulae of transmission coefficients of particle tunneling through one-dimensional multi-stepped potential barriers are studied by Erwin schrodinger equation.The results of transmission coefficient and the curves of transmission coefficients varying with the energy of incident particles for one-stepped potential barriers and double-stepped potential barriers are calculated.

V.F. Rybachenko

Johan Öhman

This work is a contribution to the theory of the quantum tunneling effect. In the literature at least two barriers are studied, for which the third-order contribution to the phase - integral asymptotic approximation of the transmission coefficient do not contribute. These are the parabolic barrier and the inverse Morse barrier. In the present work we will show that with a proper choice of the so called base function there is at least one more barrier in this category namely the Eckart-Epstein potential. The fact that the third - order contribution vanishes is a good indication that we have found an optimal choice of the base function, and the treatment to find an optimal base function may be possible to generalize to other classes of potential barriers. For particles of a low energy compared to the energy near the top of the barrier we obtain a vary low transmission coefficient, which means that the probability for tunneling to occur is very low. There exist some cases, for example that with a double barrier which is transparent, even for certain relatively low energies but no evidence for this kind of transparency for a single barrier has been found. The present work does not give any such evidence. At the same time there are still speculations on cold fusion like effects, which would demand a higher probability for tunneling through for a single barrier.

Pranab Sarkar