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The statistics of local measurements of joint quantum systems can sometimes be used to distinguish the spatiotemporal structure in which they were measured. We first prove that every bipartite separable density matrix is temporally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Minjeong Song , Arthur J. Parzygnat

If only limited control over a multiparticle quantum system is available, a viable method to characterize correlations is to perform random measurements and consider the moments of the resulting probability distribution. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Satoya Imai , Nikolai Wyderka , Andreas Ketterer , Otfried Gühne

What is the right statistics for the measurements of arrival times of a quantum particle? Although this question is very old, it is still open. Usual experiments are performed in far-field regime and this question becomes unimportant, as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Nicola Vona , Günter Hinrichs , Detlef Dürr

We introduce a formalism for the calculation of the time of arrival t at a space point for particles traveling through interacting media. We develop a general formulation that employs quantum canonical transformations from the free to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Leon , J. Julve , P. Pitanga , F. J. de Urries

We consider a number of aspects of the problem of defining time observables in quantum theory. Time observables are interesting quantities in quantum theory because they often cannot be associated with self-adjoint operators. Their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 James M Yearsley

In this paper we propose a setup for the weak measurement of photon arrival time. It is found that the weak values of this arrival time can lie far away from the expectation value, and in principle also in regions forbidden by special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Ahnert , M. C. Payne

We analyze time-of-arrival probability distributions for relativistic particles in the context of quantum field theory (QFT). We show that QFT leads to a unique prediction, modulo post-selection that incorporates properties of the apparatus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Charis Anastopoulos , Maria-Electra Plakitsi

We demonstrate that temporal observables, which are sensitive to a system's history (as opposed to its state), implicate entangled histories. We exemplify protocols for measuring such observables, and algorithms for predicting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek

The arrival time probability distribution is defined by analogy with the classical mechanics. The difficulty of requirement to have the values of non-commuting operators is circumvented using the concept of weak measurements. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

We examine the measurability of the temporal ordering of two events, as well as event coincidences. In classical mechanics, a measurement of the order-of-arrival of two particles is shown to be equivalent to a measurement involving only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Oppenheim , B. Reznik , W. Unruh

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 investigate a detector scheme designed to measure the arrival of a particle at $x=0$ during a finite time interval. The detector consists of a two state system which undergoes a transition from one state to the other when the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Halliwell

The entanglement detection via local measurements can be experimentally implemented. Based on mutually unbiased measurements and general symmetric informationally complete positive-operator-valued measures, we present separability criteria…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Xianqing Li-Jost , Shao-Ming Fei

The probability distribution of a time measurement $T_x$ at position $x$ can be inferred from the probability distribution of a position measurement $X_t$ at time $t$ as given by the Born rule [Time-of-arrival distributions for continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Mathieu Beau , Timothey Szczepanski , Rafael Martellini , Lionel Martellini

We recently showed that multipartite correlations between outcomes of random observables detect quantum entanglement in all pure and some mixed states. In this followup article we further develop this approach, derive a maximal amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Minh Cong Tran , Borivoje Dakic , Wieslaw Laskowski , Tomasz Paterek

The model of weak measurements is applied to various problems, related to the time problem in quantum mechanics. The review and generalization of the theoretical analysis of the time problem in quantum mechanics based on the concept of weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

Although one can show formally that a time-of-arrival operator cannot exist, one can modify the low momentum behaviour of the operator slightly so that it is self-adjoint. We show that such a modification results in the difficulty that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Oppenheim , B. Reznik , W. G. Unruh

A suitable operator for the time-of-arrival at a detector is defined for the free relativistic particle in 3+1 dimensions. For each detector position, there exists a subspace of detected states in the Hilbert space of solutions to the Klein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Leon

Using standard results from statistics, we show that for any continuous quantum system (Gaussian or otherwise) and any observable $\widehat{A}$ (position or otherwise), the distribution $\pi_{a}\left(t\right)$ of time measurement at a fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Mathieu Beau , Maximilien Barbier , Rafael Martellini , Lionel Martellini

The uncertainty principle is one of the characteristic properties of quantum theory, where it signals the incompatibility of two types of measurements. In this paper, we argue that measurements of time-of-arrival $T_x$ at position $x$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Mathieu Beau , Lionel Martellini