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Time delays in resonant transmission

Show that, for this potential, the time delays tex2html_wrap_inline554 and tex2html_wrap_inline556 for emergence of the center of the transmitted packet from the point x=a and for the emergence of the center of the reflected packet from the point x=0 are always equal.
Hint: To show this it is not necessary to compute the phase derivatives of the quantum amplitudes. You should be able to show that the phases of your quantum amplitudes always differ by a constant, and reason from there.

Next, evaluate the time delay tex2html_wrap_inline562 in the two special cases tex2html_wrap_inline564 and tex2html_wrap_inline566 for tex2html_wrap_inline552 .
Hint: Use the fact that the phase of 1/(a+bi) is tex2html_wrap_inline572 , and take the derivative in the logarithmic form noting immediately which tex2html_wrap_inline574 or tex2html_wrap_inline576 terms are zero or one. Also, don't forget dk'/dk=k/k'.

When k';SPMlt;;SPMlt;k, one of the time-delay cases tex2html_wrap_inline564 or tex2html_wrap_inline566 corresponds to the solver movie showing a wave packet trapped on top of a potential barrier such as the one in this problem. Which case is it? Why?



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Fri Apr 25 11:25:10 EDT 1997