Traversal-time distribution for a classical time-modulated barrier

Abstract

The classical problem of a time-modulated barrier, inspired by the Buttiker and Landauer model to study the tunneling times, is analyzed. We show that the traversal-time distribution of an ensemble of non-interacting particles that arrives at the oscillating barrier, obeys a distribution with a power-law tail.

(10 pages, 8 figures) To appear in Physics Letters A. See also http://scifunam.ifisicacu.unam.mx/jlm/mateos.html

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