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arxiv: 1412.1734 · v1 · pith:EAG7Y7FFnew · submitted 2014-12-04 · 🪐 quant-ph

Quantum reflection and Liouville transformations from wells to walls

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keywords reflectionquantumatomliouvillescatteringtransformationsanotherattractive
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Liouville transformations map in a rigorous manner one Schr\"odinger equation into another, with a changed scattering potential. They are used here to transform quantum reflection of an atom on an attractive well into reflection of the atom on a repulsive wall. While the scattering properties are preserved, the corresponding semiclassical descriptions are completely different. A quantitative evaluation of quantum reflection probabilities is deduced from this method.

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