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Consider a particle which is randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the line segment $0<x<1$ and is absorbed as soon as it reaches $x=0$ or $x=1$. The mean absorption time $T(x,v)$, where $x$ and $v$ denote the initial position and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Stanislav N. Kotsev , Theodore W. Burkhardt

It is well known that orthodox quantum mechanics does not make unambiguous predictions for the statistics in arrival time (or time-of-flight) experiments. Bohmian mechanics (or de Broglie-Bohm theory) offers a distinct conceptual advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Siddhant Das , Markus Nöth , Detlef Dürr

We investigate two models of measuring devices designed to detect a non-relativistic free particle in a given region of spacetime. These models predict different probabilities for a free quantum particle to enter a spacetime region $R$ so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Donald Marolf

Any proposed solution to the "screen problem" in quantum mechanics -- the challenge of predicting the joint distribution of particle arrival times and impact positions -- must align with the extensive data obtained from scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Will Cavendish , Siddhant Das

We present a new model of scattering a quantum particle on the potential step, which reconstructs the prehistory of the subensembles of transmitted and reflected particles by their final states. Unlike the conventional one this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 N. L. Chuprikov

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

It is notorious that quantum mechanics cannot predict well-defined values for all physical quantities. Less well-known, however, is the fact that quantum mechanics is unable to furnish -- without additional assumptions -- probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Matheus V. Scherer , Alexandre D. Ribeiro , Renato M. Angelo

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

A phase space formulation of the filtering process upon an incident quantum state is developed. This formulation can explain the results of both quantum interference and delayed-choice experiments without making use of the controversial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniela Dragoman

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

We investigate state estimation in discrete-time quantum walks with a single absorbing boundary. Using a spectral approach, we obtain closed expressions for the escape probability as a function of the initial coin state and the boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Edgard P. M. Amorim , Lorena R. Cerutti , O. P. de Sá Neto , M. C. de Oliveira

In this paper, we analyze the statistics of detection data in a general double-double-slit experiment. The two particles are detected at random times which are not equal in general and because we do not have any constraint on the distances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 MohammadJavad Kazemi , Vahid Hosseinzadeh

We consider a particle moving in a one dimensional potential which has a symmetric deterministic part and a quenched random part. We study analytically the probability distributions of the local time (spent by the particle around its mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Satya N. Majumdar , Alain Comtet

The first detection of a quantum particle on a graph has been shown to depend sensitively on the sampling time {\tau} . Here we use the recently introduced quantum renewal equation to investigate the statistics of first detection on an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-31 Felix Thiel , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

A complete one-dimensional scattering of a spinless particle on a time-independent potential barrier is considered. To describe separately transmitted and reflected particles in the corresponding subsets of identical experiments, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

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

Partitioned-interval detection binary quantum receiver with non-ideal devices is theoretically analyzed. Using global optimized partition strategy, relatively large gain over standard quantum limit (SQL) is obtained with small partition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Ke Li , Bing Zhu

Motivated by a novel method for granular segregation, we analyze the one dimensional drift-diffusion between two absorbing boundaries. The time evolution of the probability distribution and the rate of absorption are given by explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zeno Farkas , Tamas Fulop

The probability of a quantum particle being detected in a given solid angle is determined by the $S$-matrix. The explanation of this fact in time dependent scattering theory is often linked to the quantum flux, since the quantum flux…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-20 Detlef Dürr , Martin Kolb , Tilo Moser , Sarah Römer

Absorption problems of run-and-tumble particles, described by the telegrapher's equation, are analyzed in one space dimension considering partially reflecting boundaries. Exact expressions for the probability distribution function in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Luca Angelani