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How important is fast measurement for fault-tolerant quantum computation? Using a combination of existing and new ideas, we argue that measurement times as long as even 1,000 gate times or more have a very minimal effect on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 David P. DiVincenzo , Panos Aliferis

We consider a minisuperspace model for a closed universe with small and positive cosmological constant, filled with a massive scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. In the quantum version of this model, the universe may undergo a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Levkov , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We study quantum mechanical tunneling using complex solutions of the classical field equations. Simple visualization techniques allow us to unify and generalize previous treatments, and straightforwardly show the connection to the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sebastian F. Bramberger , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

A novel quantum time dilation effect is shown to arise when a clock moves in a quantum superposition of two relativistic velocities. This effect is argued to be measurable using existing atomic interferometry techniques, potentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Alexander R. H. Smith

In electron transport, the tunnelling time is the time taken for an electron to tunnel out of a system after it has tunnelled in. We define the tunnelling time distribution for quantum processes in a dissipative environment and develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Samuel Rudge , Daniel Kosov

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling remains a fascinating and enigmatic one, defying classical notions of particle behavior. This paper presents a novel theoretical investigation of the tunneling phenomenon, from the viewpoint of Hartman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling is reviewed and an overview of applying approximate methods for studying this effect is given. An approach to a time-dependent formalism is proposed in one dimension and generalized to higher dimensions.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Paul Bracken

The concept of phase and dwell times used in tunneling is extended to quantum collisions to derive a relation between the phase and dwell time delays in scattering. This relation can be used to remove the near threshold s-wave singularities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neelima G. Kelkar

Quantum tunneling, a phenomenon in which a quantum state traverses energy barriers above the energy of the state itself, has been hypothesized as an advantageous physical resource for optimization. Here we show that multiqubit tunneling…

One of the main issues in measuring the speed of light when it only travels from one spatial position into another position, known as the one-way speed of light, is that the clocks belonging to each separated spatial position are not and,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Tomer Shushi

A phenomenological model for a measurement of barrier traversal times for particles is proposed. Two idealized detectors for passage and arrival provide entrance and exit times for the barrier traversal. The averaged traversal time is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Palao , J. G. Muga , S. Brouard , A. Jadczyk

We develop a new numerical scheme which allows precise solution of coherent tunneling problems, i.e., problems with exponentially small transition amplitudes between quasidegenerate states. We explain how this method works for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov , Igor Tupitsyn

The response time of the electron to light in photoemission is difficult to define and measure. Tunneling ionization of atoms, a strong-laser-induced photoemission process, provides a semiclassical case for visiting the problem. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 C. Chen , J. Y. Che , W. Y. Li , S. Wang , X. J. Xie , J. Y. Huang , Y. G. Peng , G. G. Xin , Y. J. Chen

Experiments done in the early 1990's produced a surprising result: that single photons pass through a photonic tunnel barrier with a group velocity faster than the vacuum speed of light. Subsequent experiments with classical pulses have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Herbert G. Winful

A standard approach to analyzing tunneling processes in various physical contexts is to use instanton or imaginary time path techniques. For systems in which the tunneling takes place in a time dependent setting, the standard methods are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Per Kraus

The measurement of tunneling times in strong-field ionization has been the topic of much controversy in recent years, with the attoclock and Larmor clock being two of the main contenders for correctly reproducing these times. By expressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Pablo Martin Maier , Serguei Patchkovskii , Mikhail Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

We propose an analytical study of relativistic tunneling through opaque barriers. We obtain a closed formula for the phase time. This formula is in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations and corrects the standard formula…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Stefano De Leo , Vinicius Leonardi

The title of this article is misleading. The authors have investigated a resonator but not a tunneling barrier see also Refs.\cite{Winful2} The measured superluminal group velocity and discussed is that studied on a Lorentz-Lorenz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-29 G. Nimtz , A. A. Stahlhofen

The measurement of time durations or instants of ocurrence of events has been frequently modelled ``operationally'' by coupling the system of interest to a ``clock''. According to several of these models the operational approach is limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Alonso , R. Sala Mayato , J. G. Muga

We bring together the semiclassical approximation, matrix integrals and the theory of symmetric polynomials in order to solve a long standing problem in the field of quantum chaos: to compute transport moments when tunnel barriers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas H. Oliveira , Pedro H. S. Bento , Marcel Novaes