Quantum mechanical state of the quantum system, and tunneling effect (a new approach)

• Published in: ITM Web of Conferences Vol. 30; p. 8014
• Main Author: Torkhov, Nikolay
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Les Ulis EDP Sciences 2019
• Subjects: Electrons; Potential barriers; Properties (attributes); Quantum mechanics; Quantum theory; Wave functions
• ISSN: 2271-2097; 2431-7578; 2271-2097
• DOI: 10.1051/itmconf/20193008014

A physical model proposed in this paper resolves existing contradictions between wave and corpuscle properties of quantum particles (electrons) in tunneling effect. By means of AFM methods the work shows that the existence of the second electron on the other side of potential barrier is necessary to realize a tunneling effect in a probe-surface system. At this, only quantum mechanical state of the electron — not its corpuscular properties — described by the wave function tunnels (penetrates) through the potential barrier. The presence of the second electron on the other side of the potential barrier is necessary to establish concatenation with the first, so to say, ‘tunneling’ one. At lack of the second electron on the other side of the potential barrier, only tunneling quantum mechanical state of the first electron is possible — without transferring its corpuscular properties.