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We present a Floquet scattering theory of electron waiting time distributions in periodically driven quantum conductors. We employ a second-quantized formulation that allows us to relate the waiting time distribution to the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt , Markus Büttiker

It is argued that the time-of-arrival cannot be precisely defined and measured in quantum mechanics. By constructing explicit toy models of a measurement, we show that for a free particle it cannot be measured more accurately then $\Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. Aharonov , J. Oppenheim , S. Popescu , B. Reznik , W. G. Unruh

Classical and quantum scattering of a non-Gaussian wave packet by a rectangular barrier is studied in terms of arrival times to a given detector location. A classical wave equation, proposed by N. Rosen [{\it{Am. J. Phys.}} {\bf 32} (1964)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

The waiting time distribution $w(\tau)$, i.e. the probability for a delay $\tau$ between two subsequent transition (`jumps') of particles, is a statistical tool in (quantum) transport. Using generalized Master equations for systems coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-31 Tobias Brandes

This work proposes an answer to a challenge posed by Bell on the lack of clarity in regards to the line between the quantum and classical regimes in a measurement problem. To this end, a generalized logarithmic nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Antonio B. Nassar , Salvador Miret-Artés

The quantum mechanics is considered to be a partial case of the stochastic system dynamics. It is shown that the wave function describes the state of statistically averaged system $<\mathcal{S}_{st}>$, but not that of the individual…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion provided one of the cornerstones which underlie the modern approaches to stochastic processes. His approach is based on a random walk picture and is valid for Markovian processes lacking long-term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. M. Sokolov , J. Klafter

We numerically compare the semiclassical ``frozen Gaussian'' Herman-Kluk propagator [Chem. Phys. 91, 27 (1984)] and the ``thawed Gaussian'' propagator put forward recently by Baranger et al. [J. Phys. A 34, 7227 (2001)] by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Harabati , J. M. Rost , F. Grossmann

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

A recent approach to arrival times used the fluorescence of an atom entering a laser illuminated region and the resulting arrival-time distribution was close to the axiomatic distribution of Kijowski, but not exactly equal, neither in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. C. Hegerfeldt , D. Seidel , J. G. Muga

The computation of detection probabilities and arrival time distributions within Bohmian mechanics in general needs the explicit knowledge of a relevant sample of trajectories. Here it is shown how for one-dimensional systems and rigid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sabine Kreidl , Gebhard Gruebl , Hans G. Embacher

We develop a new method for finding the quantum probability density of arrival at the detector. The evolution of the quantum state restricted to the region outside of the detector is described by a restricted Hamiltonian that contains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Tajron Jurić , Hrvoje Nikolić

We prove that most quasi-distributions can be written in a form similar to that of the de Broglie-Bohm distribution, except that ordinary products are replaced by some suitable non-commutative star product. In doing so, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

A Lie algebraic method for propagation of the Wigner quasi-distribution function under quadratic Hamiltonian was presented by Zoubi and Ben-Aryeh. We show that the same method can be used in order to propagate a rather general class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 Dimitry Ginzburg , Ady Mann

The behaviors of one-dimensional quantum random walks are strikingly different from those of classical ones. However, when decoherence is involved, the limiting distributions take on many classical features over time. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kai Zhang

Dynamical random walk of classical particle in thermodynamically equilibrium fluctuating medium, - Gaussian random potential field, - is considered in the framework of explicit stochastic representation of deterministic interactions. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-05 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

We study the construction of probability densities for time-of-arrival in quantum mechanics. Our treatment is based upon the facts that (i) time appears in quantum theory as an external parameter to the system, and (ii) propositions about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Recent years have seen increased interest in complexified Bohmian mechanical trajectory calculations for quantum systems, both as a pedagogical and computational tool. In the latter context, it is essential that trajectories satisfy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 Bill Poirier

We study the effect of quantum statistics on the arrival time distribution of quantum particles computed through the probability current density. It is shown that symmetrization or asymmetrization of the wave function affects the arrival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 S. V. Mousavi , A. S. Majumdar , D. Home

In a previous paper [V. Delgado and J. G. Muga, Phys. Rev. A 56, 3425 (1997)] we introduced a self-adjoint operator $\hat {{\cal T}}(X)$ whose eigenstates can be used to define consistently a probability distribution of the time of arrival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 V. Delgado