Many-body aspects of the tunneling of electrons from a helium surface
- 10 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (11) , 1376-1378
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.1376
Abstract
We present a many-body WKB description of the tunneling of a single electron from the surface of liquid helium. Accurate upper and lower bounds show conclusively that the observed temperature-independent rate cannot be tunneling.Keywords
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