Origin of the Hartman effect
Abstract
For thin barriers, we show that the tunneling time τ is linear in the width and gives the traversal time. For thick barriers, τ saturates through the suppression of all but the first reflection or transmission term and gives the time to penetrate to a characteristic depth. We discuss data from frustrated internal reflection experiments.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- February 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.10.076
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhLA..351...31M
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Xp;
- 42.25.Bs;
- 73.40.Gk;
- Tunneling traversal time quantum Zeno dynamics;
- Wave propagation transmission and absorption;
- Tunneling
