The transient response of a quantum wave to an instantaneous potential step switching

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/48/311MaRDI QIDQ4466354zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 9 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207159

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: The transient response of a stationary state of a quantum particle in a step potential to an instantaneous change in the step height (a simplified model for a sudden bias switch in an electronic semiconductor device) is solved exactly by means of a semianalytical expression. The characteristic times for the transient process up to the new stationary state are identified. A comparison is made between the exact results and an approximate method.

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