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Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

On Enhancement of Transmission Probability through a High Potential Barrier Due to an Anti-Zeno Effect

Vladimir A. Namiot, Ljudmila Yu. Shchurova

Published Feb 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We consider a situation in which observations themselves can significantly increase a particle transmission probability through a high barrier compared with the particle tunneling probability (a barrier anti-Zeno effect). This may explain the results of cold fusion experiments that have been reported by other authors for various systems. We examine the anti-Zeno effect as a model of a barrier of a special shape, which is similar to the form of barriers to nuclear fusion in a solid, and moreover, has an analytic solution. We have deduced formulas that demonstrate conditions that increase the barrier permeability. Numerical estimates of the particle flows through the barrier are carried out for the conditions of cold fusion experiments.

DOI
10.70923/001c.72540

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Abstract—The issue of how observation of a process in quantum mechanics may influence its outcome is described by case studies of quantum emission by a two-level system and the passage of a particle through a potential barrier. In the first case, the observation can reduce the probability of quantum emission by the two-level system (the quantum Zeno effect). In the second case, the observation of a particle can significantly increase the probability for a particle to pass through a barrier, sometimes even by many orders of magnitude (the barrier anti-Zeno effect). The possibility of such effects in biological systems is discussed.
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.