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When quantum mechanical particles are incident on a potential one is in the first instance interested in the fraction transmitted through the potential and the fraction reflected by it. One therefore calculates the probability of reflection and the probability of transmission.
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Mavromatis, H.A. (1987). Free Particles Incident on Potentials, Time Delay, Phase Shifts and the Born Approximation. In: Exercises in Quantum Mechanics. Reidel Texts in the Mathematical Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7771-7_6
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