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Ordered and Periodic Chaos of the Bounded One-Dimensional Multibarrier Potential

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Numerical analysis indicates that there exists an unexpected new ordered chaos for the bounded one-dimensional multibarrier potential. For certain values of the number of barriers, repeated identical forms (periods) of the wavepackets result upon passing through the multibarrier potential.

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Bar, D. Ordered and Periodic Chaos of the Bounded One-Dimensional Multibarrier Potential. Int J Theor Phys 44, 1383–1398 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-005-4773-z

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