Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
62 (1993), S. 199-201
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The semiclassical expression for barrier traversal time results from a variety of theoretical procedures, but it appears that an opaque barrier is required in each derivation. Following Büttiker and Landauer [IBM J. Res. Dev. 30, 451 (1986)], we use two interfering plane waves as the incident wave and determine the traversal time by attributing differences in the transmitted and incident waves to the ratio of dispersion in the transit time to the modulation period. Calculations are made for rectangular barriers with different sizes. There is essentially agreement with Büttiker and Landauer for opaque barriers which they considered, but the present solution does not diverge for energies near the top of the barrier.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.109314
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