Evanescent Waves are Not Superluminal

1998/04/26 by M. Kleckner, Kleckner, M., A. Ron +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9804061

9 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 1998/04/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

It is demonstrated that an electromagnetic pulse, which is made to tunnel trough a barrier, would not be photo-detected before an identical pulse, which travels the same distance in vacuum.

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