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An alternative model for tunneling processes, based on the capability of the telegrapher's equation to describe stochastic processes, is able to account for delay time results of an optical experiment at the microwave scale, where superluminal behaviors have been evidenced.
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Ranfagni, A., Ruggeri, R. & Agresti, A. Tunneling as a Stochastic Process. Foundations of Physics 28, 515–525 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018776330627
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