The Story of Quantum Tunneling [& How it Powers Our World]

The story of quantum tunneling and how it drives the processes key to the existence of life, told through experiment and simulations while following the early history of the development of the physics of this weird phenomenon. References: 1. “The early history of quantum tunneling”, E. Merzbacher, Phys. Today 55 (8), 44 (2002). 2. “Quantum Tunnelling to the Origin and Evolution of Life”, F. Trixler, Current Organic Chemistry, 17, 1758-1770 (2013). 3. “Flash memories: structure and constraints”, J. Boukhobza, P. Olivier, in Flash Memory Integration, 2017, (ISTE Press – Elsevier) Credits: Math equations created using the open source library Manim, maintained by Manim Community. https://www.manim.community/ . Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:29 The Experiment 2:58 Wave-particle duality 6:11 Nordheim and square barrier 9:07 Gamow and Alpha decay 11:06 Tunneling in Sun, DNA, SSD... 12:12 Outro