Quantum Theory of Tunneling , Mohsen Razavy , World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2003. $88.00, $48.00 paper (549 pp.). ISBN 981-238-018-3, ISBN 981-238-019-1 paper
Tunneling is one of the most striking of quantum phenomena. The term comprises a wealth of different effects having in common the possibility that a quantum system will be found in a classically forbidden region of space. Despite the multitude of tunneling processes, textbooks on quantum mechanics usually limit their discussions to the passage of a particle through a square potential barrier. Several more specialized books exist, but surprisingly no comprehensive monograph on quantum tunneling had been published before this past year. That lacuna was filled by Mohsen Razavy’s Quantum Theory of Tunneling . The book provides a good collection of examples of tunneling effects in atomic, molecular, condensed matter, and nuclear physics in the last three chapters; the rest...
