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Quantum Munchausen Effect:

Radiative Corrections Increase Tunneling Probability

FAMOUS BARON VON Munchausen saved himself from a swamp pulling his hairs by  his own hands. According to classical physics, such a feat seems to be impossible. However, we live in a quantum world. In a tunneling of a charged particle, the head of the particle wave function can send a
photon to the tail which absorbs this photon and penetrates the barrier with enhanced probability. We calculated this effect which leads to increase of tunneling amplitude.

Victor Flambaum & 
Vladimir Zelevinsky

 

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