Probing Klein tunnelling through quantum quenches

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/2/025002zbMATH Open1342.81104arXiv1503.05142OpenAlexW3102920437MaRDI QIDQ2994547FDOQ2994547

Authors: Leda Bucciantini, S. Sotiriadis, Tommaso MacRì 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the interplay between an inhomogeneous quantum quench of the external potential in a system of relativistic fermions in one dimension and the well-known Klein tunneling. We find that the large time evolution is characterized by particle production at a constant rate which we derive analytically. The produced particles can be physically interpreted according to a semiclassical picture and the state reached in the long time limit can be classified as a non-equilibrium-steady-state. Such a quantum quench can be used in order to observe macroscopic effects of Klein tunneling in transport, raising the possibility of an experimental implementation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05142

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zbMATH Keywords

Klein paradoxnon-equilibrium steady statequantum quenchsemiclassical picture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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• Klein tunneling through a rectangular potential barrier in a binary waveguide array

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