The Impact of Lorentz Violation on the Klein Tunneling Effect

Abstract

We discuss the impact of a tiny Lorentz-violating $b^{\mu }$ term on the one dimensional motion of a Dirac particle scattering on a rectangular barrier. We assume the experiment is performed in a particular inertial frame, where the components of $b^{\mu }$ are assumed constants. The results show that Lorentz-violation modification to the transmission rate depends on the observer Lorentz nature of $b^{\mu }$. For a spacelike or lightlike $b^{\mu }$ the induced resonant frequency shift depends on the polarization, while for timelike $b^{\mu }$ there is essentially no modification.

3 pages, 1 figures, Presented at the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 20-24, 2016

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