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In the arrival time problem in quantum mechanics, a standard formula that frequently emerges as the probability for crossing the origin during a given time interval is the current integrated over that time interval. This is semiclassically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. J. Halliwell , J. M. Yearsley

We analyse the quantum backflow effect and extend it, as a limiting constraint to its spatial extent, for scattering situations in the presence of a purely transmitting discontinuous jump-defect. Analytical and numerical comparisons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Alexandre Hefren de Vasconcelos

The quantum backflow effect is a counterintuitive behavior of the probability current of a free particle, which may be negative even for states with vanishing negative momentum component. Here we address the notion of nonclassicality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Francesco Albarelli , Tommaso Guaita , Matteo G. A. Paris

Backflow is a counter-intuitive phenomenon in which a forward propagating quantum particle propagates locally backwards. The actual counter-propagation property associated with this delicate interference phenomenon has not been observed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-26 Yaniv Eliezer , Thomas Zacharias , Alon Bahabad

The decay of quasi-stable quantum system involves primarily an outgoing probability current density. However, during the transition from exponential to inverse-power-law decay there are time intervals during which this current, although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Wytse van Dijk , F. Masafumi Toyama

Quantum backflow refers to the appearance of negative probability current in a state whose momentum distribution is essentially positive. We propose a scheme to prepare such states in a noninteracting Bose-Einstein condensate using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yuchong Chen , Yijun Tang

Characterization and quantification of non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems are topical issues in the rapidly developing field of quantum computation and quantum communication. A standard approach based on the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Kelvin Onggadinata , Teck Seng Koh

We show that (in contrast to a rather common opinion) QM is not a complete theory. This is a statistical approximation of classical statistical mechanics on the {\it infinite dimensional phase space.} Such an approximation is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrei Khrennikov

In this paper we discuss relativistic quantum backflow. The general theory of relativistic backflow is written down and it is shown that the backflow can be written as a function of a simple parameter which is defined in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Johar M. Ashfaque , J. Lynch , P. Strange

Memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics are often diagnosed either via quantum-correlation revivals or via non-monotonic classical information measures, yet a unified minimal framework comparing their ``backflow phases'' is still lacking.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Koichi Nakagawa

In this paper we develop the topics of Quantum Recurrences and of Quantum Fidelity which have attracted great interest in recent years. The return probability is given by the square modulus of the overlap between a given initial wavepacket…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Monique Combescure

The particle current in a metastable Fermi liquid against a first-order phase transition is calculated at zero temperature. During fluctuations of a droplet of the stable phase, in accordance with the conservation law, not only does an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Kei Iida

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

We study a phenomenon occuring in various areas of quantum physics, in which an observable density (such as an energy density) which is classically pointwise nonnegative may assume arbitrarily negative expectation values after quantisation,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon P. Eveson , Christopher J. Fewster , Rainer Verch

Quantum evolutions are often non-unitary and in such cases, they are frequently regarded as lossy. Such lossiness, however, does not necessarily persist throughout the evolution, and there can often be intermediate time-spans during which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Sutapa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

Optimal simultaneous control of position and momentum can be achieved by maximizing the probabilities of finding their experimentally observed values within two well-defined intervals. The assumption that particles move along straight lines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Holger F. Hofmann

Dissipative backflow is studied in the context of open quantum systems. This theoretical analysis is carried out within two frameworks, the effective time-dependent Hamiltonian due to Caldirola-Kanai (CK) and the Caldeira-Leggett (CL) one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

There are certain dynamics while being non-Markovian, do never exhibit information backflow. We show that if two such dynamical maps are considered in a scenario where the order of application of these two dynamical maps are not definite,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Ananda G. Maity , Samyadeb Bhattacharya

When applied on some particular quantum entangled states, measurements are universal for quantum computing. In particular, despite the fondamental probabilistic evolution of quantum measurements, any unitary evolution can be simulated by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Nidhal Hamrit , Simon Perdrix

A classical system, which is analogous to the quantum one with a backflow of probability, is proposed. The system consists of a chain of masses interconnected by springs, as well attached by other springs to fixed supports. Thanks to the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 A. Matulis , A. Acus