Resonance tunnelling of clusters through repulsive barriers

Abstract

Quantum tunnelling of a cluster comprised of several identical particles, coupled via an oscillator-type potential, through short-range repulsive barrier potentials is studied in the s-wave approximation of the symmetrized coordinate representation. A procedure is briefly described that allows the construction of states, symmetric or asymmetric with respect to permutations of A identical particles, from the harmonic oscillator basis functions expressed via the newly introduced symmetrized coordinates. In the coupled-channel approximation of the -matrix approach, the effect of quantum transparency is analysed; it manifests itself in non-monotonic resonance dependence of the transmission coefficient upon the energy of the particles, their number A = 3, 4 and the symmetry types of their states. The total transmission coefficient is shown to demonstrate resonance behaviour with probability density growth in the vicinity of the potential energy local minima, which is a manifestation of the barrier quasi-stationary states, embedded in the continuum.