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We study a fully discrete finite element method for variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations with a time-dependent variable order. Optimal convergence estimates are proved with the first-order accuracy in time (and second order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Xiangcheng Zheng , Fanhai Zeng , Hong Wang

We investigate a detector scheme designed to measure the arrival of a particle at $x=0$ during a finite time interval. The detector consists of a two state system which undergoes a transition from one state to the other when the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Halliwell

Time of flight is an intuitive way to determine the velocity of particles and lies at the heart of many capabilities ranging from mass spectrometry to fluid flow measurements. Here we show time-of-flight imaging can realize tomography of a…

Many physical observables can be represented as a particle spending some random time within a given domain. For a broad class of transport-dominated processes, we detail how it is possible to express the moments of the number of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-05 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo

We revisit the arguments underlying two well-known arrival-time distributions in quantum mechanics, viz., the Aharonov-Bohm and Kijowski (ABK) distribution, applicable for freely moving particles, and the quantum flux (QF) distribution. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Siddhant Das , Markus Nöth

To understand quantum optics experiments, we must perform calculations that consider the principal sources of noise, such as losses, spectral impurity and partial distinguishability. In both discrete and continuous variable systems, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jacob F. F. Bulmer , Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , Bryn A. Bell , Nicolás Quesada

The prediction of arrival time or first passage time statistics of a quantum particle is an open problem, which challenges the foundations of quantum theory. One of the most promising and insightful approaches to this problem stems from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Siddhant Das

This paper is devoted to the error analysis of a time-spectral algorithm for fractional diffusion problems of order $\alpha$ ($0 < \alpha < 1$). The solution regularity in the Sobolev space is revisited, and new regularity results in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

We discuss the statistics of emission of photons by a single atom or ion illuminated by a laser beam at the frequency of quasi-resonance between two energy levels, a situation that corresponds to real experiments. We extend this to the case…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yves Pomeau , Martine Le Berre , Jean Ginibre

We report on the experimental investigation of two-particle correlations between neutral atoms in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Both an atom laser beam and a pseudo-thermal atomic beam are extracted from a Bose-Einstein condensate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Köhl , Anton Öttl , Stephan Ritter , Tobias Donner , Thomas Bourdel , Tilman Esslinger

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

The momentum distribution is one of the most important quantities which provides information about interactions in many-body systems. At the same time it is a quantity that can easily be accessed in experiments on ultracold atoms. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-22 M. M. Maska , R. Lemanski , C. J. Williams , J. K. Freericks

This paper describes the use of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique as a particle identification method for the HERMES experiment. The time-of-flight is measured by two 1x4 m^2 scintillation hodoscopes that initially were designed for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian , N. Akopov , M. Amarian , H. Avakian , A. Avetissian , E. Avetisyan , B. W. Filippone , R. Kaiser , H. Zohrabian

Inspired by recent advances in cold atomic systems and non-equilibrium physics, we introduce a novel characterization scheme, the time of flight full counting statistics. We benchmark this method on an interacting one dimensional Bose gas,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-18 Izabella Lovas , Balázs Dóra , Eugene Demler , Gergely Zaránd

Motivated by a heat radiative transport equation, we consider a particle undergoing collisions in a space-time domain and propose a method to sample its escape time, space and direction from the domain. The first step of the procedure is an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

Including the metric fluctuations of a realistic cosmological geometry we reconsider an earlier suggestion that measuring the relative time-of-flight of ultra-relativistic particles can provide interesting constraints on fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 G. Fanizza , M. Gasperini , G. Marozzi , G. Veneziano

Interactions between charged particles and light occur in real space and time, yet quantum field theory usually describes them in momentum space. Whereas this approach is well suited for calculating emission probabilities and cross…

We consider the general problem of the first passage distribution of particles whose displacements are subject to time delays. We show that this problem gives rise to a \emph{propagation-dispersion equation} which is obtained as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

The double-slit experiment is one of the quintessential quantum experiments. However, it tends to be overlooked that a theoretical account of this experiment requires the specification of the joint position and time distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Siddhant Das , Dirk-André Deckert , Leopold Kellers , Simon Krekels , Ward Struyve

Time-varying optical materials have attracted recent interest for their potential to enable frequency conversion, nonreciprocal physics, photonic time-crystals, and more. However, the description of time-varying materials has been primarily…