PX262 - B5 - quantum tunnelling

- considering a particle travelling from
, with an energy, , that encounters a potential barrier: - when
, in quantum mechanics, particle may get through - considering the wavefunctions in the regions:
where,
and its derivative must be continuous at and
- using these conditions, the probability of the particle passing through the barrier is:
- phenomena like
decay, nuclear fission can be explained only using quantum tunnelling