Tunneling and delay time of cutoff Gaussian wave packets

A formal analytic solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation is obtained for cutoff Gaussian wavepackets incident on finite range potentials of arbitrary shape. We derive closed analytical expressions for transmitted wavepackets with a small cutoff and the solutions are applied to investiga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Villavicencio, J, Romo, R, Cruz, E
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Sistema de Información de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fciencias.unam.mx:11154/1210
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11154/1210
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optics
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
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Sumario:A formal analytic solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation is obtained for cutoff Gaussian wavepackets incident on finite range potentials of arbitrary shape. We derive closed analytical expressions for transmitted wavepackets with a small cutoff and the solutions are applied to investigate the dynamics of wavepacket tunneling. We showed that the analytic solutions satisfy a useful rescaling property that was applied to study and characterize the delay time in delta potential barriers.