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QUANTUM
THEORY OF
TUNNELING
QUANTUM
THEORY OF
TUNNELING
Mohsen Razavy
University of Alberta, Canada
V f e World Scientific
lflb New Jersey • London • Singapore • Hong Kong
Published by
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ISBN 981-238-018-3
ISBN 981-238-019-1 (pbk)
The present book grew out of a lecture course given at the Institute for Ad-
vanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran in the summer of 1999. The
intent at the outset was to present some of the basic results and methods
of quantum theory of tunneling without concentrating on any particular ap-
plication. It was difficult to decide what topics should be treated at length
and which ones should be omitted from the discussion. Thus my main area
of interest, the quantum theory of dissipative tunneling, was left out com-
pletely since even an introductory survey of the subject would have nearly
doubled the size of the book.
I am indebted to my dear friends and colleagues Professors Y. Sobouti and
M.R. Khajepour for giving me the opportunity of lecturing to a group of
enthusiastic graduate students and also encouraging me to write this mono-
graph. I have benefitted immensely from discussions with my colleague Pro-
fessor A.Z. Capri and with Mr. Robert Teshima. Above all, I am indebted
to my wife who never failed to support me.
v
Contents
Preface v
3 Semi-Classical Approximations 23
vii
viii Contents
10.8 Decay of the Initial State and the Jost Function 196
25.1 The Band Theory of Solids and the Kronig-Penney Model . . 511
Index 541
Introduction
xv
xvl Introduction
(ii) - If the initial condition shows that the particle is in the region — oo <
x < a, then in the course of time by the process of tunneling the parti-
cle passes through the barrier and goes to x = oo. This initial state has
also a finite lifetime. In both of these cases there are characteristic energies
for which the tunneling probability is large, whereas for other energies it is
small.
The third possibility is when the potential V(x) is a confining poten-
tial, i.e. V(x) tends to infinity on both sides of the central maximum (or
maxima), V(x) —> oo as x —> ±00. In this case the motion of the particle
will be restricted to a part of the x-axis. Depending on the number of max-
ima of V(x), we can have the eigenvalue problem for a double- or multi-well
potential. The motion of the wave packet for double-wells, due to their im-
portance in applied physics have received extensive treatment.
The double-wells can be symmetric or asymmetric. The motion of a
wave packet which represents the particle in a symmetric double-well, under
certain conditions, can be obtained from the superposition of the eigenfunc-
tions of the two lowest states of the system. When this happens then the
wave packet oscillates between the two wells with a well defined frequency,
and it also preserves its shape after successive back and forth tunneling. This
very important case is called quantum coherence. For asymmetric wells, if
the motion from one well to the other takes place by tunneling, then we
have a situation which we call quantum hopping.
In two or three dimensions when the barrier is only a function of the
distance from the origin of the coordinate system, i.e. p = \Jx2 + y2 or
r = \/x2 + y2 + z2, we can separate the variables in the Schrodinger equa-
tion and thus reduce the problem to a one-dimensional motion but now with
the boundary conditions imposed at p — 0 or r = 0 and at p and r infinity.
For instance in three dimensions if we assume that V(r —> 00) —> 0 and
that V(r) has a maximum at r = a, then if the particle is originally con-
fined in the region 0 < r < a, it can tunnel through the barrier and go to
infinity. These special cases of two- or three-dimensional tunneling can be
regarded as one-dimensional but the potentials V(p) and V(r) are replaced
by Veff(p) and Veff(r), with the boundary condition that the reduced radial
wave function must vanish at the origin.
In the first chapter of this book we present a brief history of the subject
of quantum tunneling and the role that a number of pioneers played in its
development. In the second chapter we discuss the physics of tunneling and
the solution to the problem of local kinetic energy provided by the uncer-
tainty principle. Furthermore we show that the principles of wave mechanics
imply that, in general, the decay of the system, either because of tunneling
Quantum Tunneling xvii
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