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An experimentally realizable scheme is formulated which can test any postulated quantum mechanical approach for calculating the arrival time distribution. This is specifically illustrated by using the modulus of the probability current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alok Kumar Pan , Md. Manirul Ali , Dipankar Home

What time does a clock tell after quantum tunneling? Predictions and indirect measurements range from superluminal or instantaneous tunneling to finite durations, depending on the specific experiment and the precise definition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Patrik Schach , Enno Giese

In electron transport, the tunnelling time is the time taken for an electron to tunnel out of a system after it has tunnelled in. We define the tunnelling time distribution for quantum processes in a dissipative environment and develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Samuel Rudge , Daniel Kosov

It has been noticed that when the waiting time distribution exhibits a transition from an intermediate time power law decay to a long-time exponential decay in the continuous time random walk model, a transition from anomalous diffusion to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Zhe Xue , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou , Min Tang

The current density for a freely evolving state without negative momentum components can temporarily be negative. The operational arrival time distribution, defined by the absorption rate of an ideal detector, is calculated for a model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. G. Muga , J. P. Palao , C. R. Leavens

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

Discrete-time quantum walks are considered a counterpart of random walks and the study for them has been getting attention since around 2000. In this paper, we focus on a quantum walk which generates a probability distribution splitting to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Takuya Machida

A number of approaches to the problem of defining arrival and dwell time probabilities in quantum theory make use of idealised models of clocks. An interesting question is the extent to which the probabilities obtained in this way are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. M. Yearsley , D. A. Downs , J. J. Halliwell , A. K. Hashagen

How to compute the probability distribution of a detection time, i.e., of the time which a detector registers as the arrival time of a quantum particle, is a long-debated problem. In this regard, Bohmian mechanics provides in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Sheldon Goldstein , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghì

We solve for the statistics of the first detection of a quantum system in a particular desired state, when the system is subject to a projective measurement at independent identically distributed random time intervals. We present formulas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai , Klaus Ziegler

The problem of detection time distribution concerns a quantum particle surrounded by detectors and consists of computing the probability distribution of where and when the particle will be detected. While the correct answer can be obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Roderich Tumulka

The passage-time distribution for a spread-out quantum particle to traverse a specific region is calculated using a detailed quantum model for the detector involved. That model, developed and investigated in earlier works, is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Jens Timo Neumann , Lawrence S. Schulman

The generation of time signals is a fundamental task in science. Here we study the relation between the quality of a time signal and the physics of the system that generates it. According to quantum theory, any time signal can be decomposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Yuxiang Yang , Renato Renner

We introduce a general framework for defining context-dependent time distributions in quantum systems using projective measurements. The time-of-flow (TF) distribution, derived from population transfer rates into a measurement subspace,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Mathieu Beau

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

This paper compares the proposal made in previous papers for a quantum probability distribution of the time of arrival at a certain point with the corresponding proposal based on the probability current density. Quantitative differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Delgado

The discrete time quantum walk which is a quantum counterpart of random walk plays important roles in the theory of quantum information theory. In the present paper, we focus on discrete time quantum walks viewed as quantization of random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Etsuo Segawa

The position density of a "particle" performing a continuous-time quantum walk on the integer lattice, viewed on length scales inversely proportional to the time t, converges (as t tends to infinity) to a probability distribution that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alex D. Gottlieb

Tunneling, transport of particles through classically forbidden regions, is a pure quantum phenomenon. It governs numerous phenomena ranging from single-molecule electronics to donor-acceptor transition reactions. The main problem is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Durmus Demir , Tugrul Guner

This paper considers the problem of constructing a distributed direct coupling quantum observer for a closed linear quantum system. The proposed distributed observer consists of a network of quantum harmonic oscillators and it is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Ian R. Petersen