Unstable vacuum and fermion total reflection by the Klein step

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAC085zbMATH Open1502.81064arXiv2111.06509OpenAlexW4282827404MaRDI QIDQ5097490FDOQ5097490

Hiromichi Nakazato, Makoto Ochiai

Publication date: 24 August 2022

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The so-called Klein tunneling is re-examined within the framework of quantum field theory, but from a different point of view on the asymptotic states. We treat it as a one-dimensional scattering process of a fermion incident to a step potential and introduce asymptotic operators as appropriate $t=pminfty$ limits of the field operator responsible for the process. For the so-called Klein energy range, two asymptotic vacua naturally emerge which are defined as states annihilated by the asymptotic annihilation operators. They are related by a similarity transformation, which entails a vacuum decay and yields a vacuum decay constant. When a fermion with incident energy in the Klein region is injected to the step, it is shown to be reflected with probability one, accompanied by fermion--anti-fermion pairs that are vacuum decay products.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06509

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Tunneling in quantum theory (81U26) Particle decays (81U90)

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