Tunneling resonances in systems without a classical trapping

Abstract

In this paper we analyze a free quantum particle in a straight Dirichlet waveguide which has at its axis two Dirichlet barriers of lengths ${\ell }_{\pm }$ separated by a window of length 2a. It is known that if the barriers are semiinfinite, i.e. we have two adjacent waveguides coupled laterally through the boundary window, the system has for any a>0 a finite number of eigenvalues below the essential spectrum threshold. Here we demonstrate that for large but finite ${\ell }_{\pm }$ the system has resonances which converge to the said eigenvalues as ${\ell }_{\pm }\to \infty$, and derive the leading term in the corresponding asymptotic expansion.

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