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We develop an efficient approach for computer simulation of stationary scattering and tunneling transfer across an arbitrary one-dimensional potential barrier. New algorithms and programs were worked out and tested and the convergence of the method in question was examined.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Fedirko, S.V. Polyakov, D.A. Zenyuk, 2010, published in Matematicheskoe Modelirovanie, 2010, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 3–14.
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Fedirko, V.A., Polyakov, S.V. & Zenyuk, D.A. Matrix method for simulating the tunneling transfer. Math Models Comput Simul 2, 704–713 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070048210060050
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