Traversal-time distribution for a classical time-modulated barrier

✍ Scribed by José L Mateos

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 622 KB
• Volume: 256
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9601
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00226-1

✦ Synopsis

The classical problem of a time-modulated barrier, inspired by the Buttiker and Landauer model to study the tunneling ẗimes, is analyzed. We show that the traversal-time distribution of an ensemble of non-interacting particles that arrives at the oscillating barrier, obeys a distribution with a power-law tail.