Tunneling in energy eigenstates and complex quantum trajectories

DOI10.1007/S40509-015-0051-9zbMATH Open1326.81021arXiv1512.05854OpenAlexW3106302034MaRDI QIDQ892964FDOQ892964

Moncy Vilavinal John, Kiran Mathew

Publication date: 12 November 2015

Published in: Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Complex quantum trajectory approach, which arose from a modified de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics, has attracted much attention in recent years. The exact complex trajectories for the Eckart potential barrier and the soft potential step, plotted in a previous work, show that more trajectories link the left and right regions of the barrier, when the energy is increased. In this paper, we evaluate the reflection probability using a new ansatz based on these observations, as the ratio between the total probabilities of reflected and incident trajectories. While doing this, we also put to test the complex-extended probability density previously postulated for these quantum trajectories. The new ansatz is preferred since the evaluation is solely done with the help of the complex-extended probability density along the imaginary direction and the trajectory pattern itself. The calculations are performed for a rectangular potential barrier, symmetric Eckart and Morse barriers, and a soft potential step. The predictions are in perfect agreement with the standard results for potentials such as the rectangular potential barrier. For the other potentials, there is very good agreement with standard results, but it is exact only for low and high energies. For moderate energies, there are slight deviations. These deviations result from the periodicity of the trajectory pattern along the imaginary axis and have a maximum value only as much as $0.1\mathrm{\%}$ of the standard value. Measurement of such deviation shall provide an opportunity to falsify the ansatz.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05854

zbMATH Keywords

tunnelingpotential barriercomplex quantum trajectorysoft potential step

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

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