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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/6/101
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We show that the group delay in tunnelling is not a traversal time but a lifetime of stored energy or stored probability escaping through both ends of the barrier. Because it is a lifetime associated with both forward ( transmitted) and backward ( reflected) fluxes, it cannot be used to define a group velocity for forward transit in cases where a wavepacket is mostly reflected. For photonic tunnelling barriers the group delay is identical to the dwell time which is also a property of an entire wavefunction with reflected and transmitted components. Theoretical predictions and experimental reports of superluminal group velocities in barrier tunnelling are re-interpreted.
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