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Quantum theory of tunneling /
A comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of quantum tunnelling, stressing the basic physics underlying the applications. The topics addressed include exponential and non-exponential decay processes and the application of scattering theory to tunnelling problems. In addition to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A brief history of quantum tunneling
- Some basic questions concerning quantum tunneling
- Semi-classical approximations
- Generalization of the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule and its application to quantum tunneling
- Gamow's theory, complex eigenvalues, and the wave function of a decaying state
- Simple solvable problems
- Tunneling in confining symmetric and asymmetric double-wells
- A classical description of tunneling
- Tunneling in time-dependent barriers
- Decay width and the scattering theory
- The method of variable reflection amplitude applied to solve multichannel tunneling problems
- Path integral and its semi-classical approximation in quantum tunneling
- Heisenberg's equations of motion for tunneling
- Wigner distribution function in quantum tunneling
- Complex scaling and dilatation transformation applied to the calculation of the decay width
- Multidimensional quantum tunneling
- Group and signal velocities
- Time-delay, reflection time operator and minimum tunneling time
- More about tunneling time
- Tunneling of a system with internal degrees of freedom
- Motion of a particle in a space bounded by a surface of revolution
- Relativistic formulation of quantum tunneling
- The inverse problem of quantum tunneling
- Some examples of quantum tunneling in atomic and molecular physics
- Examples from condensed matter physics
- Alpha decay.