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Chin. Phys. B, 2010, Vol. 19(11): 117305    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/11/117305
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On the tunneling time of arbitrary continuous potentials and the Hartman effect

Yin Cheng(殷澄), Wu Zhi-Jing(吴至境), Wang Xian-Ping(王贤平), Sun Jing-Jing(孙晶晶), and Cao Zhuang-Qi(曹庄琪)
Department of Physics, The State Key Laboratory on Fiber Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Abstract  This paper obtains a generalized tunneling time of one-dimensional potentials via time reversal invariance. It also proposes a simple explanation for the Hartman effect using the useful concept of the scattered subwaves.
Keywords:  tunneling time      analytical transfer matrix method  
Received:  18 April 2010      Revised:  19 May 2010      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  03.65.Xp (Tunneling, traversal time, quantum Zeno dynamics)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10874121 and 60677029).

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Yin Cheng(殷澄), Wu Zhi-Jing(吴至境), Wang Xian-Ping(王贤平), Sun Jing-Jing(孙晶晶), and Cao Zhuang-Qi(曹庄琪) On the tunneling time of arbitrary continuous potentials and the Hartman effect 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 117305

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