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Tunneling through a disordered potential barrier

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Tunnelling through a weakly disordered potential barrier is studied analytically. A perturbative approach is developed to calculate all statistical moments of the tunnelling transmission coefficient, and its probability distribution function. It is shown that on average disorder enhances the tunnelling conductance, resistance, and the coherent component of the transmitted field.

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  1. The Jack and Pearl Resnick Institute of Advanced Technology, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    V. Freilikher & M. Pustilnik

  2. International Center for Theoretical Physics, 34100, Trieste, Italy

    I. Yurkevich

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  1. V. Freilikher
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On leave from the Institute of Low-Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov 310164, Ukraine.

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Freilikher, V., Pustilnik, M. & Yurkevich, I. Tunneling through a disordered potential barrier. Found Phys 26, 701–712 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02058241

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