• In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or...
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    scanning tunnelling microscopy, tunnel diode and tunnel field-effect transistor. When quantum systems interact, the result can be the creation of quantum entanglement:...
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  • faster-than-light transmission in optics — most often in the context of a kind of quantum tunnelling phenomenon. Usually, such reports deal with a phase velocity or group...
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  • Quantum tunnelling composites (QTCs) are composite materials of metals and non-conducting elastomeric binder, used as pressure sensors. They use quantum...
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  • attributed to the quantum tunnelling of electrons in the ETC and of protons in the proton motive gradient. Indeed, electron tunneling has already been...
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  • Quantum spin tunneling, or quantum tunneling of magnetization, is a physical phenomenon by which the quantum mechanical state that describes the collective...
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    particle. Like other cluster decays, alpha decay is fundamentally a quantum tunneling process. Unlike beta decay, it is governed by the interplay between...
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  • based on quantum tunneling. The Peratech sensors are also referred to in the literature as quantum tunnelling composite. The quantum tunneling operation...
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    group at Cornell University demonstrated a quantum Zeno effect as the modulation of the rate of quantum tunnelling in an ultracold lattice gas by the intensity...
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  • scale where quantum effects are significant. Important applications of quantum theory include quantum chemistry, quantum optics, quantum computing, superconducting...
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  • up tunneling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tunneling or tunnelling may refer to: Digging tunnels (the literal meaning) Hobby tunneling Quantum tunneling...
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  • Quantum mechanics is the study of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atomic and subatomic particles. By contrast, classical physics...
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    Brian Josephson (category Quantum mind)
    Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction...
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  • pass through the junction, and instead they pass the barrier via quantum tunnelling. The structure is similar to a ferroelectric capacitor, but the ferroelectric...
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    process of quantum tunnelling. Classically, the electron has zero probability of passing through the barrier. However, according to quantum mechanics,...
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  • which combine to give a further 80-fold rate enhancement due to quantum tunnelling. In contrast, phosphine (PH3) inverts very slowly at room temperature...
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  • particle is less than the potential energy barrier of the walls (cf quantum tunnelling). For the 1-dimensional case on the x-axis, the time-independent Schrödinger...
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  • The quantum tunneling of water occurs when water molecules in nanochannels exhibit quantum tunneling behavior that smears out the positions of the hydrogen...
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    Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9783540769569. Caldeira, A. O.; Leggett, A. J. (1983). "Quantum tunnelling in a dissipative system". Annals of Physics. 149 (2): 374–456. Bibcode:1983AnPhy...
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  • strength of the transverse field, which causes quantum tunneling between states or essentially tunneling through peaks. If the rate of change of the transverse...
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    that account for most of the fusion reactions. The other effect is quantum tunnelling. The nuclei do not actually have to have enough energy to overcome...
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    gamma-emission, or tunnel through the scission barrier and break apart. Should the nucleus find itself in this state, either through quantum tunnelling or via random...
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  • the formation of iron stars states that cold fusion occurring via quantum tunnelling would cause the light nuclei in ordinary matter to fuse into iron-56...
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    quantum tunneling. When the tip is brought very near to the surface to be examined, a bias voltage applied between the two allows electrons to tunnel...
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  • All types of tunneling diodes make use of quantum mechanical tunneling. Characteristic to the current–voltage relationship of a tunneling diode is the...
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  • so was the scanning tunneling microscope, which paved the way for development of the photoionization microscope and the quantum entanglement microscope...
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    Switzerland to study the quantum tunnelling phenomenon. They created a practical instrument, a scanning probe microscope from quantum tunnelling theory, that read...
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    (eds.). "Parallel Universes". In "Science and Ultimate Reality: From Quantum to Cosmos", Honoring John Wheeler's 90th Birthday. 288 (5): 40–51. arXiv:astro-ph/0302131...
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  • material. Current passes through the junction via the process of quantum tunneling. The STJ is a type of Josephson junction, though not all the properties...
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  • ubiquity despite their catalytic inactivity suggests omic implications Quantum tunnelling The Proteolysis Map Time resolved crystallography Kamerlin SC, Warshel...
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