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Electric field induced tunneling is studied in three different types of quantum wells by solving time-independent effective mass equation in analytic methods based on three different Airy function approaches. Comparison of different Airy function methods indicates that they are identical and connected to each other by the Breit-Wigner formula.
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Panda, S., Panda, B.K. Analytic methods for field induced tunneling in quantum wells with arbitrary potential profiles. Pramana - J Phys 56, 809–822 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-001-0081-1
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