scholarly journals Schwinger effect and false vacuum decay as quantum-mechanical tunneling of a relativistic particle

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Yuan Ai ◽  
Marco Drewes
Keyword(s):  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
False Vacuum ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling ◽  
Vacuum Decay ◽  
Schwinger Effect

Spin-forbidden heavy-atom tunneling in the ring-closure of triplet cyclopentane-1,3-diyl

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís P. Viegas ◽  
Cláudio Manaia Nunes ◽  
Rui Fausto
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Atom ◽  
Ring Closure ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling

In 1975, Buchwalter and Closs reported one of the first examples of heavy-atom quantum mechanical tunneling (QMT) by studying the ring closure of triplet cyclopentane-1,3-diyl to singlet bicyclo[2.1.0]pentane in cryogenic...

O(3)-invariant tunnelling at false vacuum decay in general relativity

1991 ◽  
Vol T36 ◽  
pp. 269-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
V A Berezin ◽  
V A Kuzmin ◽  
I I Tkachev
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
False Vacuum ◽  
Vacuum Decay

scholarly journals False vacuum decay in kink scattering

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adalto R. Gomes ◽  
F. C. Simas ◽  
K. Z. Nobrega ◽  
P. P. Avelino
Keyword(s):  
False Vacuum ◽  
Vacuum Decay

scholarly journals Contact Electrification by Quantum-Mechanical Tunneling

Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Willatzen ◽  
Zhong Lin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Potential Versus ◽  
Coulomb Repulsion ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Contact Electrification ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Tunneling Dynamics ◽  
Vacuum Gap

A simple model of charge transfer by loss-less quantum-mechanical tunneling between two solids is proposed. The model is applicable to electron transport and contact electrification between e.g. a metal and a dielectric solid. Based on a one-dimensional effective-mass Hamiltonian, the tunneling transmission coefficient of electrons through a barrier from one solid to another solid is calculated analytically. The transport rate (current) of electrons is found using the Tsu-Esaki equation and accounting for different Fermi functions of the two solids. We show that the tunneling dynamics is very sensitive to the vacuum potential versus the two solids conduction-band edges and the thickness of the vacuum gap. The relevant time constants for tunneling and contact electrification, relevant for triboelectricity, can vary over several orders of magnitude when the vacuum gap changes by one order of magnitude, say, 1 Å to 10 Å. Coulomb repulsion between electrons on the left and right material surfaces is accounted for in the tunneling dynamics.

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