Eddi et al. [Phys. Rev Lett. 102, 240401 (2009)] presented experimental results demonstrating the unpredictable tunneling of a classical wave-particle association as may arise when a droplet walking across the surface of a vibrating fluid bath approaches a submerged barrier. We here present a theoretical model that captures the influence of bottom topography on this wave-particle association an...

We present a time dependent theory of laser catalysis, a process in which a strong light source is used to aaect tunneling through a potential barrier by inducing a transient electronic excitation to a bound state. We have performed detailed calculations of pulsed laser catalysis on a one-dimensional Eckart potential as a function of the collision energy and the laser's central-frequency. As in...

Unified semiclasical solution for general nonadiabatic tunneling between two adiabatic potential energy surfaces is established by employing unified semiclassical solution for pure nonadiabatic transition [C. Zhu, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 4159 (1996)] with the certain symmetry transformation. This symmetry comes from a detailed analysis of the reduced scattering matrix for Landau-Zener type of cross...

Here, a new methodology is proposed for treating electrochemical current densities in metal-insulator-metal nanoparticle (M-I-MNP) systems. The described model provides broad, practical insights about MNP-mediated electron transfer to redox species in solution, where electron transfer from the underlying electrode to a MNP via tunneling and heterogeneous electron transfer from the MNP to redox ...

We analyze the effects of the environment on the spin tunneling process of paramagnetic and superparamagnetic particles and conclude that the “bare” macroscopic tunneling rate is hardly affected in such case, but others more effective processes come up to change the magnetization state of the particle. We measure the degree of coherence loss by the linear entropy which will account for all corr...

Poisson and Schrödinger equations are solved self-consistently for accumulated layers in metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and applied to the calculation of tunneling currents at 300 K and 77 K and extraction of parameters for very thin oxides. Calculations at 300 K show strong agreement with measured tunneling currents and also point out the sources of inaccuracies in extracting thicknesses of...

Recent scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiments on graphene reported an unexpected gap of about +/-60 meV around the Fermi level [V. W. Brar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 122102 (2007); 10.1063/1.2771084Y. Zhang, Nature Phys. 4, 627 (2008)10.1038/nphys1022]. Here we give a theoretical investigation explaining the experimentally observed spectra and confirming the phonon-mediated tunneling as the re...

The sensitivity of electron tunneling to the phase of an ionizing light field is shown to manifest itself in detectable features in the spectral and temporal evolution of intense few-cycle light pulses in an ionizing medium. An ultrafast buildup of electron density in the regime of tunneling ionization gives rise to a modulation of a few-cycle field wave form and enhances the short-wavelength p...

We study interlayer transport in double-layered (mmm) quantum Hall liquids in the weak tunneling limit, in particular the effects of lead geometry on the I-V characteristics of interlayer tunneling. We proposed several practical ways to study experimentally the novel interlayer transport properties in the double-layered (mmm) quantum Hall liquids. Some concrete predictions on the DC characteris...