Reflection above the barrier as tunneling in momentum space

Quantum mechanics predicts an exponentially small probability that a particle with energy greater than the height of a potential barrier will reflect from the barrier in violation of classical expectations. This process can be regarded as tunneling in momentum space, leading to a simple derivation o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaffe, Robert L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88459
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0262-3645