Tunneling through a fluctuating barrier: two-level model
We investigate the problem of tunneling across a randomly fluctuating barrier in the presence of dissipation in the two-level approximation. The barrier fluctuations are induced by a random telegraph noise whose switching rate nu is taken as a control parameter. For infinitely fast fluctuations the dynamics of the system is similar to the static case, while, for very small nu, the barrier evolution is a superposition of static solutions for both configurations. This leads to a resonant beating or long-time periodic localization. For an intermediate value of nu we have found a resonancelike suppression of coherent tunneling. When the system levels are detuned, a resonant enhancement of decay in the incoherent regime also occurs.
Iwaniszewski
J
School of Physics and Chemistry, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. jan.iwaniszewski@phys.uni.torun.pl