Semiclassical Theory for Dissipative Tunneling towards the Medium
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چکیده
The exact semiclassical wave function for a tunneling electron, coupled to the degrees of freedom of the host medium, is constructed. In our derivation the tunneling path is divided into an infinite set of infinitezimal segments and the decaying solutions of the stationary Shrödinger equations are matched for each neighboring segment from the beginning to the end of the tunneling path. This solution is expressed as the integral over imaginary tunneling time τ’ (the time of classical motion in the inverted barrier)
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