Question
A device exploiting this phenomenon is run in either constant-current or constant-height mode. Airy functions are used to connect oscillatory solutions to evanescent solutions corresponding to this process at classical turning points in the WKB approximation. Binnig and Rohrer developed a technique which applies a bias voltage to induce this phenomenon as a (*) sharp tip moves over a surface. Cooper pairs undergo this phenomenon in the Josephson effect. In George Gamow’s theory of alpha decay, a helium nucleus undergoes this phenomenon, which allows the particle to escape the Coulomb potential. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a particle passes through a “classically forbidden” potential barrier. ■END■
ANSWER: quantum tunneling [or quantum mechanical tunneling]
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