2013/06/30 by Jérémy Le Deunff, Amaury Mouchet, Peter Schlagheck · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.88.042927
published as Phys. Rev. E 88, 042927 (2013)
arxiv created 2013/11/01 · arxiv updated 2013/11/13
Resonance-assisted tunneling is investigated within the framework of one-dimensional integrable systems. We present a systematic recipe, based on Hamiltonian normal forms, to construct one-dimensional integrable models that exhibit resonance island chain structures with accurately controlled sizes and positions of the islands. Using complex classical trajectories that evolve along suitably defined paths in the complex time domain, we construct a semiclassical theory of the resonance-assisted tunneling process. This semiclassical approach yields a compact analytical expression for tunneling-induced level splittings which is found to be in very good agreement with the exact splittings obtained through numerical diagonalisation.