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Analytical considerations of barrier transmission
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
The success of approximate methods in the calculation of transmission coefficients of waves penetrating potential barriers rests, not so much on any satisfactory approximation theory, but on a comparison with a particular barrier, namely the parabolic barrier. The paucity of exact analytical solutions of barrier problems has prevented an explicit detailed analysis of the errors involved, but two recently devised barriers with analytical solutions are investigated here, in order to compare the exact values of the transmission coefficients (both as to their mathematical structure and numerically) with their approximate forms. An estimate is also made of the effect of neglecting poles existing in the complex propagation plane.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 353 - 367
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972
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