Emergence of exponentially small reflected waves

DOI10.3233/ASY-2009-0935MaRDI QIDQ3181975zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Volker Betz, A. Joye, Stefan Teufel

Publication date 1 October 2009

Published in Asymptotic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3717

zbMATH Keywords

above barrier scatteringasymptoticsquantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

Abstract: We study the time-dependent scattering of a quantum mechanical wave packet at a barrier for energies larger than the barrier height, in the semi-classical regime. More precisely, we are interested in the leading order of the exponentially small scattered part of the wave packet in the semiclassical parameter when the energy density of the incident wave is sharply peaked around some value. We prove that this reflected part has, to leading order, a Gaussian shape centered on the classical trajectory for all times soon after its birth time. We give explicit formulas and rigorous error bounds for the reflected wave for all of these times.

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