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Resonant transmission probability

Show that, no matter how strong the tex2html_wrap_inline420 potential, for this potential there are always values of the incoming wave vector for which tex2html_wrap_inline674 and tex2html_wrap_inline676 .

What would you expect classically for the probability of transmission through two tex2html_wrap_inline420 potentials given your result for the probability of transmission through a single tex2html_wrap_inline680 -function from Problem 3?

The phenomena of the high probability of transmission through a pair of potentials which individually give very little transmission is known as resonant tunneling. Comment on what you think is the physical origin of resonant tunneling.



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