Superoscillations and tunneling times

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Abstract

It is proposed that superoscillations play an important role in the interferences that give rise to superluminal effects. To exemplify that, we consider a toy model that a wave packet to travel in zero time and negligible distortion, a distance arbitrarily larger than the width of the wave packet. The peak is shown to result from a superoscillatory superposition at the tail. Similar reasoning applies to the dwell time.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume65
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

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