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The transmission coefficient of a one-dimensional barrier with a single peak of arbitrary shape is considered via Miller and Good 's [1] approximation, which is found to be very poor in the general case. A method of improving the approximation is presented.
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Zhirnov, N.I. Barrier-transmission probability in the extended petrashenfok method. Soviet Physics Journal 8, 16–21 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00818273
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