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View SchemaSuperoscillations and tunneling times
| Authors | Yakir Aharonov, Noam Erez, Benni Reznik |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0110104 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110104 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.052124 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 65, 052124 (2002). |
Abstract
It is proposed that superoscillations play an important role in the interferences which give rise to superluminal effects. To exemplify that, we consider a toy model which allows for a wave packet to travel, in zero time and negligible distortion a distance arbitrarily larger than the width of the wave packet. The peak is shown to result from a superoscillatory superposition at the tail. Similar reasoning applies to the dwell time.
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