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WKB - Not So Bad After All

2011/06/03 by C. S. Ng, Ng, Chung-Sang
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1106.1065

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Abstract

It was found recently that tunneling probabilities over a barrier is roughly twice as large as that given by standard WKB formula. Here we explained how this come from and showed that WKB method does give a good approximation over almost entire energy range provided that we use appropriate connection relations.

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