Timeline for If an electron tunnels and loses amplitude, but maintains energy; where does the rest of the amplitude go?
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| May 2, 2015 at 22:21 | vote | accept | ARMATAV | ||
| May 2, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | Decreasing the barrier increases the probability and does not change the electron energy. Introducing more electrons (by increasing the contact surface, for example) increases the electron flux, not the probability. Flux is a product of the number of tunneling electrons per second, their charge, etc. The probability depends on energy, but the energy after tunneling is the same as before. Presence of the barrier does not subtract the electron energy. | |
| May 2, 2015 at 20:34 | comment | added | ARMATAV | According to this page hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/barr.html the E level dictates whether the wave surmounts the barrier, and has an easier time crossing it. So I don't understand why the individual energy has no effect. | |
| May 2, 2015 at 20:29 | comment | added | ARMATAV | So you must decrease the barrier or introduce more electrons to tunnel at a higher probability; increasing the individual levels of electrons does nothing? So a 10,000,000 volt field with a single electron in it has the same probability to permeate a barrier as a 1 volt field with a single electron? | |
| May 2, 2015 at 20:17 | history | answered | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |