Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Quantum tunnelling without a barrier

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2311.14826 v2 pith:JCKSYJ3O submitted 2023-11-24 quant-ph physics.atom-phphysics.optics

classification quant-phphysics.atom-phphysics.optics
keywords barriertunnelingeventfieldquantumwithoutarisesattosecond
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
read the original abstract

Tunneling is an iconic concept that captures the peculiarity of quantum dynamics but, despite its ubiquity, questions remain. We focus on strong-field tunneling, which is vital to all attosecond science. We find an unexpected optical tunneling event that happens when the instantaneous electric field vanishes and there is no barrier. This event arises from a color switchover in a strongly polychromatic field. The tunneling without a barrier reveals the disconnect between the standard intuition built on the picture of a quasistatic barrier and the nonadiabatic nature of the process.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. The real-time Feynman path integral for step potentials

    quant-ph 2025-08 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    Complex semiclassical paths in the Feynman path integral for step potentials can be organized into equivalence classes, and one unsuppressed class provides the instanton mechanism for quantum reflection.

Pith tools