Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2005

Keywords

Optics, Physics

Abstract

Using numerical solutions to relativistic quantum field theory with space-time resolution, we illustrate how an incoming electron wave packet with a definite spin scatters off a supercritical potential step. We show that the production rate is reduced of only those electrons that have the same spin as the incoming electron is reduced. This spin-resolved result further clarifies the importance of the Pauli-exclusion principle for the Klein paradox.

Comments

Originally published in Physical Review A by the American Physical Society.

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