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Prompted by the longstanding interpretational controversy in quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling is heuristically addressed within the Everettian quantum multiverse. In this framework, the universal wavefunction splits into decohered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. E. Ennadifi

Distributions of electron waiting times have been measured in several recent experiments and have been shown to provide complementary information compared to what can be learned from the electric current fluctuations. Existing theories,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Philipp Stegmann , Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Christian Flindt

Canonical semiclassical methods can be used to develop an intuitive definition of tunneling time through potential barriers. An application to atomic ionization is given here, considering both static and time-dependent electric fields. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Bekir Baytas , Martin Bojowald , Sean Crowe

We show that it is impossible to determine the time a tunneling particle spends under the barrier. However, it is possible to determine the asymptotic time, i.e., the time the particle spends in a large area including the barrier. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julius Ruseckas

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling remains a fascinating and enigmatic one, defying classical notions of particle behavior. This paper presents a novel theoretical investigation of the tunneling phenomenon, from the viewpoint of Hartman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

We investigate the tunneling time of a wave packet propagating through a non-Hermitian potential $V_{r} - iV_{i}$ in space-fractional quantum mechanics. By applying the stationary phase method, we derive a closed-form expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Mohammad Umar , Vibhav Narayan Singh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We study the problem of computing the probability for the time-of-arrival of a quantum particle at a given spatial position. We consider a solution to this problem based on the spectral decomposition of the particle's (Heisenberg) state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Norbert Grot , Carlo Rovelli , Ranjeet S. Tate

This is an analysis of some aspects of an old but still controversial topic, superluminal quantum tunneling. Some features of quantum tunneling described in literature, such as definition of the tunneling time and a frequency range of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Moses Fayngold

We investigate the liberation of an atomic electron by a linearly polarized single-cycle near-infrared laser pulse having a peak intensity that ensures tunneling. Based on phase space analysis and energy distribution in the instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Szabolcs Hack , Szilárd Majorosi , Mihály G. Benedict , Sándor Varró , Attila Czirják

In the B\"uttiker-Landauer perturbation approach to electron tunnelling, through a time-modulated rectilinear potential barrier, the Tien-Gordon identity was invoked, together with its infinite energy spectrum. Here, an exact treatment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Sydney G. Davison , Timothy S. Davison

The new method for the simulation of nonstationary quantum processes is proposed. The method is based on the tomography representation of quantum mechanics, {\it i.e.}, the state of the system is described by the {\it nonnegative} function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. E. Lozovik , V. A. Sharapov , A. S. Arkhipov

Starting with the equivalence of the rest energy of a particle to an amount of the radiant energy characterized by a frequency, in addition to the usual relativistic transformation rules leading to the wave-particle duality, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Demir

The paper reviews positive and negative time delays in various processes of classical and quantum physics. In the beginning, we demonstrate how a time-shifted response of a system to an external perturbation appears in classical mechanics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 E. E. Kolomeitsev , D. N. Voskresensky

The quantum shutter approach to tunneling time scales (G. Garc\'{\i }a-Calder\'{o}n and A. Rubio, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{55}, 3361 (1997)), which uses a cutoff plane wave as the initial condition, is extended in such a way that a certain type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Norifumi Yamada , Gastón García-Calderón , Jorge Villavicencio

We study tunneling processes of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on the real time stochastic approach and reveal some properties of their tunneling time. An important result is that the tunneling time decreases as the repulsive interatomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Kobayashi , M. Inoue , Y. Nakamura , K. Honda , Y. Yamanaka

We consider the time delay of massive, non-relativistic, one-dimensional particles due to a tunneling potential. In this setting the well-known Hartman effect asserts that often the sub-ensemble of particles going through the tunnel seems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-13 J. Kiukas , A. Ruschhaupt , R. F. Werner

We introduce a novel time-energy uncertainty relation within the context of restarts in monitored quantum dynamics. Initially, we investigate the concept of ``first hitting time'' in quantum systems using an IBM quantum computer and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Ruoyu Yin , Qingyuan Wang , Sabine Tornow , Eli Barkai

We develop a general framework for the construction of probabilities for the time of arrival in quantum systems. The time of arrival is identified with the time instant when a transition in the detector's degrees of freedom takes place.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Exact solutions of time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in presence of time-dependent potential is defined by point transformation and separation of variables. Energy and Heisenberg uncertainty relation are pursued for time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Debraj Nath

We introduce the concept of partial and full tunneling processes to explain the seemingly contradictory non-zero and vanishing tunneling times often reported in the literature. Our analysis starts by considering the traversal time of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Philip Caesar M. Flores , Dean Alvin L. Pablico , Eric A. Galapon