QUANTUM TUNNELING // ALPHA DECAY

live split-step Schrödinger solver

PAUSED

Isotope Preset

Known half-life:

Particle Mass1.00

Total Energy14.0

Barrier Height (V₀)32.0

Barrier Width6.0

Particle Tracers

Wave Display Mode

Natural units (ħ = 1), illustrative scaling — real nuclear tunneling timescales are far too extreme to animate directly. Amplitude is perceptually compressed for visibility; numeric readouts are exact.

Ψ wavefunction

nuclear well

Coulomb barrier

emitted particle

Tunneling Prob.

0.00%

Transmission Coeff. T

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Particle Velocity

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Est. Half-Life (sim)

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Known Half-Life

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