Sawtooth structure in tunneling probability for a periodically perturbed rounded-rectangular potential

• Published in: Physical review. E 2024-04, Vol.109 (4-1), p.044203-044203, Article 044203
• Main Authors: Takahashi, Kin'ya, Ikeda, Kensuke S
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2470-0045; 2470-0053
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.044203

Sawtooth structures are observed in tunneling probabilities with changing Planck's constant for a periodically perturbed rounded-rectangular potential with a sufficiently wide width for which instanton tunneling is substantially prohibited. The sawtooth structure is a manifestation of the essential nature of multiquanta absorption tunneling. Namely, the periodic perturbation creates an energy ladder of harmonic channels at E_{n}=E_{I}+nℏω, where E_{I} is an incident energy and ω is an angular frequency of the perturbation. The harmonic channel that absorbs the minimum amount of quanta of n=n[over ¯], such that V_{0}