title: Tunneling transverse to a magnetic field and its occurrence in correlated 2D electron systems.
abstract: We investigate tunneling decay in a magnetic field. Because of broken time-reversal symmetry, the standard WKB technique does not apply. The decay rate and the outcoming wave packet are found from the analysis of the set of the particle Hamiltonian trajectories and its singularities in complex space. The results are applied to tunneling from a strongly correlated 2D electron system in a magnetic field parallel to the layer. We show in a simple model that electron correlations strongly affect the tunneling rate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
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authors.lastname: Barabash-Sharpee
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Dykman
authors.forename: P M
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authors.lastname: Platzman