Put
The Time-independent Schrodinger equation has the forms
The first region contains the incident and reflected waves, while the final region contains only the transmitted wave.
Continuity of and at both edges of the finite square well gives the standard transmission coefficient
When , one has , and therefore
Hence the transmission probability is
Transmission amplitude 2026-10-07
For one-dimensional quantum scattering, is the complex amplitude of the outgoing transmitted wave relative to the incoming wave. The transmission probability is times the ratio of transmitted and incident flux velocities; with equal asymptotic dispersion it is . A reflectionless potential has and a unit-modulus transmission amplitude whose phase shifts continuum quantization. The supersymmetric factorization of the one-soliton potential gives for its single-bound-state potential.