Role of a Phase Factor in the Boundary Condition of a One-Dimensional Junction

Abstract

One-dimensional quantum systems can be experimentally studied in recent nano-technology like the carbon nanotube and the nanowire. We have considered the mathematical model of the one-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger particle with a junction and have analyzed the phase factor in the boundary condition of the junction. We have shown that the phase factor in the tunneling case appears in the situation of the non-adiabatic transition with the three energy levels in the exact WKB analysis.Comment: 19 pages, to appear in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Special issues: Quantum Phases: 50 Years of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect and 25 Years of the Berry Phas