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The Klein paradox is connected with (but not identical to) the phenomena of vacuum change in supercritical fields. Since the latter are one of the major objectives of this book, we shall discuss the Klein paradox extensively. It is named after O. Klein, who in 1929 studied the scattering of electrons from a potential barrier of height V 0 [K129]. We first study this paradox purely from the singleparticle stand point to interpret the Dirac equation, i.e. without use of hole theory, as Klein did. Later we introduce the hole-theory interpretation, as was originally done by Hund [Hu 54].
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O. Klein: Z. Phys. 53, 157 (1929); see also ibid 41 407 (1927)
F. Sauter: Z. Phys. 69 742 (1931); ibid 73, 547 (1931)
F. Hund: Materie als Feld (Springer, Berlin,Heidelberg, New York 1954)
T. A. Green: Phys. Rev. A23, 519, 532 (1981)
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Greiner, W., Müller, B., Rafelski, J. (1985). The Klein Paradox. In: Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82272-8_5
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