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Experimental evidence of tunneling as a stochastic process
A Ranfagni1, R Ruggeri, C Susini
1Istituto di Ricerca sulle Onde Eletromagnetiche "Nello Carrara," CNR, Via Panciatichi 64, 50127 Firenze, Italy.
Abstract:
A model for tunneling based on stochastic processes proves to be capable of interpreting the results of two experiments at the microwave scale. The first of these consisted of measuring the penetration time in a subcutoff waveguide; the second one, in measuring the shift of a beam in a frustrated total reflection. Said shift which is a measurement of the traversal time of the barrier. In both cases, a peak in the real-time component was evidenced, as predicted by the theoretical model.