DISTRIBUTION OF TIMES FOR BARRIER TRAVERSAL CAUSED BY ENERGY FLUCTUATIONS

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HAGMANN, MJ
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[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami
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10.1063/1.354995
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Quantum tunneling is attributed to energy fluctuations permitted by the uncertainty principle. The distribution of barrier traversal times is shown to be bimodal. The expression for the expectation value is similar to the semiclassical result, and the width of the distribution varies inversely with the size of the barrier.
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