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Determination of the border between “shallow” and “deep” tunneling regions for Herman-Kluk method by asymptotic approach Atushi Tanaka∗ Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan 0 0 2 Abstract n a The evaluation of a tunneling tail by the Herman-Kluk method, which is a quasiclassical way to J 0 compute quantum dynamics, is examined by asymptotic analysis. In the shallower part of the tail, 2 as well as in the classically allowed region, it is shown that the leading terms of semiclassical eval- 1 v uations of quantum theory and the Herman-Kluk formula agree, which is known as an asymptotic 5 3 equivalence. In the deeper part, it is shown that the asymptotic equivalence breaks down, due to 1 1 the emergence of unusual “tunneling trajectory”, which is an artifact of the Herman-Kluk method. 0 6 0 PACS numbers: 03.65.Sq, 05.45.Mt, 02.70.-c / h p - t n a u q : v i X r a ∗Electronic address: tanaka@phys.metro-u.ac.jp 1 Even nowadays, it is still impossible to carry out serious numerical investigation of quan- tum dynamics, even for modest (e.g., 10–100) degrees of freedom systems, with the present state of the art of computational technology, unless we take drastic approximations that need to be based on good physical insights. As a starting point to invent such a method, it is often employed the semiclassical approximation (i.e. asymptotic evaluation) of the path integral representation of time evolution operator (Feynman kernel) [1]. The semiclassical approximation, however, has difficulties due