1999/08/07 by Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #math-ph #math.MP #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/9908011
6 Latex pages and 2 Figures, revtex.sty
arxiv created 1999/08/07 · openalex publication_date 1999/08/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
People are familiar with quantum mechanical reflection and transmission coefficient. In all those cases corresponding potentials are usually assumed as of constant height and depth. For the cases of varying potential, corresponding reflection and transmission coefficients can be found out using WKB approximation method. But due to change of barrier height, reflection and transmission coefficients should be changed from point to point. Here we show the analytical expressions of the instantaneous reflection and transmission coefficients. Here as if we apply the WKB approximation at each point, so we call it as Instantaneous WKB method or IWKB method. Once we know the forward and backward wave amplitudes we can find out corresponding wave function by calculating Eiconal. For the case of analytically complicated potential corresponding differential equation seems to be unsolvable analytically. If the potentials are well behaved then obviously these could be replaced by functions of simple expression of same behaviour which can be integrated analytically and the equation is now possible to solve analytically.