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Microwave Experiments on Tunneling Time

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The tunneling process represents one of the most non-classical predictions in quantum mechanics. Within this process, one of the questions most debated is that of the “traversal time”, that is the time spent during the passage through a barrier. The question of how much time tunneling takes is certainly not new, but it is one that has not yet been resolved.

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  1. Departamento de Química-Física Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del País Vasco, Apdo. 644, Bilbao, Spain

    J. G. Muga

  2. Departamento de Física Fundamental II, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna (S/C de Tenerife), Spain

    R. Sala Mayato

  3. Fisika Teorikoaren Saila Zientzi Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 P.K., Bilbao, Spain

    I. L. Egusquiza

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Mugnai, D., Ranfagni, A. (2002). Microwave Experiments on Tunneling Time. In: Muga, J.G., Mayato, R.S., Egusquiza, I.L. (eds) Time in Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45846-8_12

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