The effect of dissipation on quantum transmission resonance

Quantum mechanics successfully describes physical processes at the microscopic scale and sometimes exhibits unique counter-intuitive phenomena. One such example is quantum-mechanical tunneling that cannot be explained in terms of classical mechanics. In search of an applicability for quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale [1], the effect of dissipation on quantum tunneling has been studied in respect to systems such as superconducting devices [2–4] because dissipation is inherent and inevitable in macroscopic scale. The observation of quantum-tunneling-rate reduction was a first important result to be associated with quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale.