Monday, April 8, 2013

1304.1561 (Stefano De Leo)

A study of transit times in Dirac tunneling    [PDF]

Stefano De Leo
Based on the Dirac equation, the behavior of relativistic electrons which tunnel a potential barrier of height V0 for incoming energies between V0 and V0+m is studied by using the wave packet formalism. The choice of this incoming energy zone guarantees that only electrons participate to the tunneling process. In the opaque limit, as shown in a previous analysis, the transit velocity is proportional to the barrier width and for relativistic potential tends to a constant value greater than $c$. In this paper, a new numerical study shows a very surprising result: superluminal transmissions are also evident for thin barriers.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1561

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