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The concepts of Wigner time delay and Wigner-Smith matrix allow to characterize temporal aspects of a quantum scattering process. The article reviews the statistical properties of the Wigner time delay for disordered systems; the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Christophe Texier

In this paper we give a new and constructive approach to stationary scattering theory for pairs of self-adjoint operators $H_0$ and $H_1$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal H$ which satisfy the following conditions: (i) for any open bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Nurulla Azamov

The Newton-Wigner states and operator are widely accepted to provide an adequate notion of spatial localization of a particle in quantum field theory on a spacelike hypersurface. Replacing the spacelike with a timelike hypersurface, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Daniele Colosi , Robert Oeckl

The Wigner time delay of a classically chaotic quantum system can be expressed semiclassically either in terms of pairs of scattering trajectories that enter and leave the system or in terms of the periodic orbits trapped inside the system.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-09 Jack Kuipers , Martin Sieber

In the framework of any quantum theory in the Schroedinger picture a general operator time concept is given. For this purpose certain systems are emphasized as ideal quantum clocks. Their definition follows heuristically from a common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Walter Gessner

Non-Markovian dynamics is ubiquitous in both quantum and classical systems, but the numerical computation of the time-delay dynamics is demanding. In this work, we propose an efficient quantum algorithm for solving linear distributed delay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Wataru Setoyama , Keisuke Fujii

We present a general account on the stationary scattering theory for unitary operators in a two-Hilbert spaces setting. For unitary operators $U_0,U$ in Hilbert spaces ${\cal H}_0,{\cal H}$ and for an identification operator $J:{\cal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa

We model a particle entering a complicated system from free space using an infinite chain of simple harmonic oscillators coupled to a finite, $n$-site cluster. For a particle wavepacket with small wavenumber, an expression for the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Erin Crawley

We have studied the angular time delay in slow-electron elastic scattering by spherical targets as well as the average time delay of electrons in this process. It is demonstrated how the angular time delay is connected to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 M. Ya. Amusia , A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

The general and explicit relation between the phase time and the dwell time for quantum tunneling or scattering is investigated. Considering a symmetrical collision of two identical wave packets with an one-dimensional barrier, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

The Wigner time delay of slow particles in the process of their elastic scattering by complex targets formed by several zero-range potentials is investigated. It is shown that at asymptotically large distances from the target, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Ya. Amusia , A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

The main motivation of this article is to derive sufficient conditions for dynamical stability of periodically driven quantum systems described by a Hamiltonian H(t), i.e., conditions under which it holds sup_{t in R} | (psi(t),H(t) psi(t))…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Duclos , Eric Soccorsi , Pavel Stovicek , Michel Vittot

We revisit the notions of the quantum-mechanical sojourn time in the context of the quantum clocks to enquire whether the sojourn time be clocked without the clock affecting the dynamics of the wave motion. Upon recognizing that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Nitish Kumar Gupta , A. M. Jayannavar , S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Based on our previous study [IS3] on the stationary scattering theory for the Schrodinger operator on a manifold possessing an escape function we complete our investigation by doing the time-dependent counterpart. A particular class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Kenichi Ito , Erik Skibsted

We present a semiclassical calculation, based on classical action correlations implemented by means of a matrix integral, of all moments of the Wigner--Smith time delay matrix, $Q$, in the context of quantum scattering through systems with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-26 Marcel Novaes

The Wigner-Smith (WS) time delay matrix relates a lossless system's scattering matrix to its frequency derivative. First proposed in the realm of quantum mechanics to characterize time delays experienced by particles during a collision,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Utkarsh R. Patel , Yiqian Mao , Eric Michielssen

The relevance of parity and time reversal (PT)-symmetric structures in optical systems is known for sometime with the correspondence existing between the Schrodinger equation and the paraxial equation of diffraction where the time parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Bijan Bagchi , Subhrajit Modak , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We construct a time-dependent scattering theory for Schr\"odinger operators on a manifold $M$ with asymptotically conic structure. We use the two-space scattering theory formalism, and a reference operator on a space of the form $R\times…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Kenichi Ito , Shu Nakamura

The Wigner time delay, defined by the energy derivative of the total scattering phase shift, is an important spectral measure of an open quantum system characterising the duration of the scattering event. It is related to the trace of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-12 Jack Kuipers , Dmitry V. Savin , Martin Sieber

In this paper, we consider the existence and the asymptotic completeness of the wave operators for Schrodinger equations with time-dependent potentials which are short-range in space.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Taisuke Yoneyama , Keiichi Kato