Partial and full tunneling processes across potential barriers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09260v4
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 13:04:54 GMT
• Title: Partial and full tunneling processes across potential barriers
• Authors: Philip Caesar M. Flores, Dean Alvin L. Pablico, and Eric A. Galapon
• Abstract summary: We argue that a partial-tunneling process is always instantaneous, while a full-tunneling process takes a non-zero amount of time. We are led to the hypothesis that experimentally measured non-zero and vanishing tunneling times correspond to partial and full-tunneling processes, respectively.
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• Abstract: We introduce the concept of partial and full tunneling processes to explain the seemingly contradictory non-zero and vanishing tunneling times often reported in the literature. Our analysis starts by considering the traversal time of a quantum particle through a potential barrier, including both above and below-barrier traversals, using the theory of time-of-arrival operators. We then show that there are three traversal processes corresponding to non-tunneling, full-tunneling, and partial tunneling. The distinction between the three depends on the support of the incident wavepackets energy distribution in relation to the shape of the barrier. Non-tunneling happens when the energy distribution of the quantum particle lies above the maximum of the potential barrier. Otherwise, full-tunneling process occurs when the energy distribution of the particle is below the minimum of the potential barrier. For this process, the obtained traversal time is interpreted as the tunneling time. Finally, the partial-tunneling process occurs when the energy distribution lies between the minimum and maximum of the potential barrier. This signifies that the quantum particle tunneled only through some portions of the potential barrier. We argue that the duration for a partial-tunneling process should not be interpreted as the tunneling time but instead as a partial traversal time to differentiate it from the full-tunneling process. We then show that a full-tunneling process is always instantaneous, while a partial-tunneling process takes a non-zero amount of time. We are then led to the hypothesis that experimentally measured non-zero and vanishing tunneling times correspond to partial and full-tunneling processes, respectively.

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