BARRIER PENETRATION VIA PATH-INTEGRALS
Publication Date
1982
Journal or Book Title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Abstract
Path integral methods are applied to the problem of barrier penetration. By an excursion into complex time it is shown how the ideal of a ’’classical’’ path may be generalized to give a simple geometrical derivation of the usual WKB formulas.
Pages
833-839
Volume
50
Issue
9
Recommended Citation
Holstein, BR and SWIFT, AR, "BARRIER PENETRATION VIA PATH-INTEGRALS" (1982). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 436.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/436
Comments
The published version is located at http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v50/i9/p833_s1