Tunnelling of a composite particle in presence of a magnetic field

Abstract

We present a simple model of composite particle tunnelling through a rectangular potential barrier in presence of magnetic field. The exact numerical solution of the problem is provided and the applicability to real physical situations is discussed. Some qualitative features of tunnelling with no magnetic interaction are retained, but some new ones are also observed. The resonance peaks in transmission spectrum generally do not reach $100\%$ transmission probability when the magnetic field is turned on. We observe splitting and in some cases widening of transmission probability peaks. When the width $b$ of area with magnetic field is large, we observe oscillations of spin-flip probability with energy and $b$ which are caused by Larmor precession of spin about the vector of magnetic field. For some values of relevant parameters we also observe significant increase of tunnelling probability for low energies in the single particle case.

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