The Early History of Quantum Tunneling
Abstract
Molecular spectra, electron emission from metals, and alpha decay provided fertile ground in the 1920s for applying the new ideas of quantum mechanics.
- Publication:
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Physics Today
- Pub Date:
- August 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1510281
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhT....55h..44M
- Keywords:
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- tunnelling;
- quantum theory;
- history;
- wave functions;
- potential energy functions;
- bound states;
- perturbation theory;
- thermionic emission;
- electric fields;
- mathematical analysis