{
  "id": "0910.4564",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2009-10-23T18:34:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-11-02T14:53:35.000Z",
  "title": "Reflection above the barrier as tunneling in momentum space",
  "authors": [
    "R. L. Jaffe"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to American Journal of Physics. Version 2: MIT preprint number added, typographical error in caption to Figure 2 corrected",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Quantum mechanics predicts an exponentially small probability that a particle with energy greater than the height of a potential barrier will nevertheless reflect from the barrier in violation of classical expectations. This process can be regarded as tunneling in momentum space, leading to a simple derivation of the reflection probability.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2009-11-02T14:53:35.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.-w"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "momentum space",
      "quantum mechanics predicts",
      "reflection probability",
      "potential barrier",
      "energy greater"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1119/1.3298428",
      "journal": "American Journal of Physics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Jun",
      "volume": 78,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": 620
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010AmJPh..78..620J"
    }
  }
}