Resonances of a Potential Well with a Thick Barrier (original) (raw)

Above-barrier resonances: analytical expressions for energy and width

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2002

We construct a smooth realistic barrier potential that can generate resonances above the top of the barrier provided a parameter λ controlling the flatness of the barrier is larger than the critical value λ = √ 2. The energies and widths of resonances are expressed analytically in terms of the characteristics of the barrier, namely height, range and flatness. In order to obtain a more versatile and asymmetric barrier, two symmetric barriers are merged together side by side and the exact transmission coefficient across such a barrier is derived.

Perturbation of the one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation with a rectangular potential barrier

Open Mathematics

In Applied Mathematics Letters 74 (2017), 147–153, the Hyers-Ulam stability of the one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation was investigated when the relevant system has a potential well of finite depth. As a continuous work, we prove in this paper a type of Hyers-Ulam stability of the one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation with a rectangular potential barrier of {V}_{0} in height and 2c in width, where {V}_{0} is assumed to be greater than the energy E of the particle under consideration.

Barrier-top resonances for non globally analytic potentials

Journal of Spectral Theory, 2018

We give the semiclassical asymptotic of barrier-top resonances for Schrödinger operators on R n , n ≥ 1, whose potential is C ∞ everywhere and analytic at infinity. In the globally analytic setting, this has already been obtained in [6, 24]. Our proof is based on a propagation of singularities theorem at a hyperbolic fixed point that we establish here. This last result refines a theorem of [3], and its proof follows another approach.

Numerical continuation of bound and resonant states of the two-channel Schrödinger equation

Physical Review A, 2012

Resonant solutions of the quantum Schrödinger equation occur at complex energies where the S-matrix becomes singular. Knowledge of such resonances is important in the study of the underlying physical system. Often the Schrödinger equation is dependent on some parameter and one is interested in following the path of the resonances in the complex energy plane as the parameter changes. This is particularly true in coupled channel systems where the resonant behavior is highly dependent on the strength of the channel coupling, the energy separation of the channels and other factors.

Solvable models of an open well and a bottomless barrier: one dimensional exponential potentials

European Journal of Physics

We present one dimensional potentials V (x) = V 0 [e 2|x|/a − 1] as solvable models of a well (V 0 > 0) and a barrier (V 0 < 0). Apart from being new addition to solvable models, these models are instructive for finding bound and scattering states from the analytic solutions of Schrödinger equation. The exact analytic (semi-classical and quantal) forms for bound states of the well and reflection/transmission (R/T) coefficients for the barrier have been derived. Interestingly, the crossover energy E c where R(E c) = 1/2 = T (E c) may occur below/above or at the barrier-top. A connection between poles of these coefficients and bound state eigenvalues of the well has also been demonstrated.

Location of resonances generated by degenerate potential barrier

Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, 2006

We study resonances of the semi-classical Schrödinger operator H = −h 2 ∆ + V on L 2 (IR N ). We consider the case where the potential V have an absolute degenerate maximum. Then we prove that H has resonances with energies

Quantization condition for multi-barrier resonances

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

We give the quantization condition and the semiclassical distribution of resonances of the Schrödinger operator in a general setting where the trapped set of the underlying classical mechanics makes a finite graph consisting of hyperbolic fixed points and associated homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories. This is one of the results in our paper [3]. We give some examples and a rough sketch of the proof.

ABOUT QUANTUM WELLS AND QUANTUM BARRIERS

A particular discussion of the ground state energy level and the corresponding wave function shape is discussed for quantum well systems aiming to provide a better comprehension of such confinement effects for quantum mechanics beginners. The results have been numerically obtained from the solution of one dimensional time independent Schrödinger equation for a confined space inside which either a barrier or a quantum well is grown. The wave function and energy level for the ground state is extensively analyzed in both scenarios, when the inserted barrier height increases considerably and when the inserted quantum well becomes extremely thin and deeper simulating a delta-doped system. The physics interpretations of these results are particularly rich and may become useful to undergraduate students not only of physics courses but also for other domains where structural concepts of quantum theory are necessary, required or wanted.

A Discrete Model for Resonance Near Embedded Bound States

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2010

We present a discrete model for resonance in periodic dielectric slabs arising from the interaction of electromagnetic plane waves with guided modes at frequencies embedded in the continuum. Two infinite rows of interacting masses in the model support propagating and evanescent waves simultaneously. This allows for modes exponentially trapped near an obstacle at continuum frequencies. The discrete model manifests resonant transmission features of the periodic slab and it includes parameters of asymmetry that are connected to the detuning of the resonance. Moreover, resonant transmission in both systems is described by a rigorous universal formula that explicitly incorporates a detuning parameter.