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The Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics adds particle trajectories to the wave function and ensures that the probability distribution of the particle positions agrees with quantum mechanics at any time. This is not sufficient to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Michael Zirpel

We study the transport of many partially distinguishable and possibly interacting particles under the action of repeated projective measurements on a target space and investigate how the particles' interference affects the mean first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Christoph Dittel , Niklas Neubrand , Felix Thiel , Andreas Buchleitner

The violation of Bell type inequalities in quantum systems manifests that quantum states cannot be described by classical probability distributions. Yet, Bohmian mechanics is a realistic, non-local theory of classical particle trajectories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Robert C. Helling

We consider the arrival time distribution defined through the quantum probability current for a Gaussian wave packet representing free particles in quantum mechanics in order to explore the issue of the classical limit of arrival time. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Md. Manirul Ali , A. S. Majumdar , Alok Kumar Pan

We study the time-of-arrival problem for relativistic particles constrained to move on a ring, formulating the problem entirely within Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In contrast to its counterpart for motion in a line, the circle topology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Iason Vakondios , Charis Anastopoulos

We formulate a quantum arrival time measurement process for a Bosonic many-particle system, with the aim of extracting statistical information on single-particle properties. The arrival time is based on a dynamical multi-particle absorption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Jukka Kiukas , Andreas Ruschhaupt

Consider the motion of a Brownian particle in two or more dimensions, whose coordinate processes are standard Brownian motions with zero drift initially, and then at some random/unobservable time, one of the coordinate processes gets a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Philip A. Ernst , Goran Peskir

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 study the arrival time distribution of overdamped particles driven by a constant force in a piecewise linear random potential which generates the dichotomous random force. Our approach is based on the path integral representation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-06 S. I. Denisov , M. Kostur , E. S. Denisova , P. Hänggi

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

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

The electron waiting time is the time that passes between two subsequent charge transfers in an electronic conductor. Recently, theories of electron waiting times have been devised for quantum transport in Coulomb-blockade structures and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt

We investigate a fully quantum mechanical spin model for the detection of a moving particle. This model, developed in earlier work, is based on a collection of spins at fixed locations and in a metastable state, with the particle locally…

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

Based on the principle that arrival time and position are simultaneously measurable quantities a simple formula is derived for the arrival time probability density in nonrelativistic quantum theory.

General Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 P. Hraskó

We present the very simple model of a particle detector and the proposal for the calculation of the average value of the time of arrival.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-05 Viliam Pazma , Julius Vanko

The exact mean time between encounters of a given particle in a system consisting of many particles undergoing random walks in discrete time is calculated, on both regular and complex networks. Analytical results are obtained both for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 David P. Sanders

Constructing observables that describe the localization of relativistic particles is an important foundational problem in relativistic quantum field theory (QFT). The description of localization in terms of single-time observables leads to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schr\"odinger's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Berndl , M. Daumer , D. Dürr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

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

The mean arrival time of free particles is computed using the quantum probability current. This is uniquely determined in the non-relativistic limit of Dirac equation, although the Schroedinger probability current has an inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Md. Manirul Ali , A. S. Majumdar , D. Home , S. Sengupta