Tunneling of an energy eigenstate through a parabolic barrier viewed from Wigner phase space

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.05.017MaRDI QIDQ482940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. M. Heim, W. Schleich, J. P. Dahl, S. Varro, Paul M. Alsing

Publication date 15 December 2014

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1030

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functiontunnelinginverted oscillator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We analyze the tunneling of a particle through a repulsive potential resulting from an inverted harmonic oscillator in the quantum mechanical phase space described by the Wigner function. In particular, we solve the partial differential equations in phase space determining the Wigner function of an energy eigenstate of the inverted oscillator. The reflection or transmission coefficients $R$ or $T$ are then given by the total weight of all classical phase space trajectories corresponding to energies below, or above the top of the barrier given by the Wigner function.

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