Coherent oscillations and incoherent tunnelling in one - dimensional asymmetric double - well potential

Details Coherent oscillations and incoherent tunnelling in one - dimensional asymmetric double - well potential Coherent oscillations and incoherent tunnelling in one - dimensional asymmetric double - well potential

2001-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107495v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

19 pages, 7 figures, Revtex, revised version. Accepted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036217

For a model 1d asymmetric double-well potential we calculated so-called survival probability (i.e. the probability for a particle initially localised in one well to remain there). We use a semiclassical (WKB) solution of Schroedinger equation. It is shown that behaviour essentially depends on transition probability, and on dimensionless parameter which is a ratio of characteristic frequencies for low energy non-linear in-well oscillations and inter wells tunnelling. For the potential describing a finite motion (double-well) one has always a regular behaviour. For the small value of the parameter there is well defined resonance pairs of levels and the survival probability has coherent oscillations related to resonance splitting. However for the large value of the parameter no oscillations at all for the survival probability, and there is almost an exponential decay with the characteristic time determined by Fermi golden rule. In this case one may not restrict oneself to only resonance pair levels. The number of perturbed by tunnelling levels grows proportionally to the value of this parameter (by other words instead of isolated pairs there appear the resonance regions containing the sets of strongly coupled levels). In the region of intermediate values of the parameter one has a crossover between both limiting cases, namely the exponential decay with subsequent long period recurrent behaviour.

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