Path-integral solution of the telegrapher equation: An application to the tunneling time determination
- 20 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (3) , 259-262
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.259
Abstract
Delay times relative to a beat envelope are deduced from a path-integral solution of the telegrapher equation, analytically continued to imaginary time when the square of the effective velocity becomes negative. The results are approximately described by a semiclassical model translated in frequency from the nominal to an effective cutoff, thus improving the agreement with experimental results.Keywords
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