Wave packet tunneling and imaginary wave vector dispersion

Autor: Walter Unglaub, A.F.J. Levi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physics Open, Vol 17, Iss , Pp 100164- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-0326
DOI: 10.1016/j.physo.2023.100164
Popis: Dispersion associated with the complex band structure of a periodic potential can be used to explain single-electron wave packet tunneling through a finite-sized tunnel barrier. The imaginary k-space dispersion in a tunnel barrier may be viewed as a filter that controls the arrival time, shape, and group velocity of a transmitted wave packet. This k-space filter can be designed to increase or decrease the group velocity of the transmitted pulse and a transmitted peak-pulse probability arrival time can be engineered to occur before or after that of an electron wave packet propagating in the absence of the tunnel barrier.
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