Tunneling of slow quantum packets through the high Coulomb barrier
arXiv:1402.3837 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2014.02.016
Abstract
We study the tunneling of slow quantum packets through a high Coulomb barrier. We show that the transmission coefficient can be quite different from the standard expression obtained in the plane wave (WKB) approximation (and larger by many orders of magnitude), even if the momentum dispersion is much smaller than the mean value of the momentum.
3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A