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We propose a time-of-arrival operator in quantum mechanics by conditioning on a quantum clock. This allows us to bypass some of the problems of previous proposals, and to obtain a Hermitian time of arrival operator whose probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Lorenzo Maccone , Krzysztof Sacha

A geometric construction of the arrival time in conventional quantum mechanics is presented. It is based on a careful mathematical analysis of different quantization procedures for classical observables as functions of positions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Jerzy Kijowski

All covariant time operators with normalized probability distribution are derived. Symmetry criteria are invoked to arrive at a unique expression for a given Hamiltonian. As an application, a well known result for the arrival time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. C. Hegerfeldt , J. G. Muga

Non-commutative spacetime and quantum groups have been argued to capture non-classical features of spacetime and its symmetries in the low-energy limit of quantum gravity. In this letter, we show that employing the $SU_q(2)$ quantum group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Vittorio D'Esposito , Giuseppe Fabiano , Domenico Frattulillo

We consider a Brownian particle moving on a ring. We study the probability distributions of the total number of turns and the net number of counter-clockwise turns the particle makes till time t. Using a method based on the renewal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-03 Anupam Kundu , Alain Comtet , Satya N. Majumdar

The Wigner rotation of quantum particles with spin is one of the fascinating consequences of interplay between special relativity and quantum mechanics. In this paper we show that a direct experimental verification of Wigner's rotation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Veiko Palge , Jacob Dunningham , Yuji Hasegawa , Christian Pfeifer

The classical limit problem of quantum mechanics is revisited on the basis of a scheme that enables a quantitative study of the way the quantum-classical agreement emerges while going through the intermediate mass range between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dipankar Home , Alok Kumar Pan , Arka Banerjee

The question of how to interpret and compute arrival-time distributions in quantum mechanics remains unsettled, reflecting the longstanding tension between treating time as a quantum observable or as a classical parameter. Most previous…

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

We consider a double quantum dot system with two embedded and non-aligned spin impurities to manipulate the magnitude and polarization of the electron spin density. The device is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional leads which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gianluca Stefanucci , Enrico Perfetto , Michele Cini

Waiting time distribution and the zero-frequency full counting statistics of unidirectional electron transport through a double quantum dot molecule attached to spin-polarized leads are analyzed using the quantum master equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

We review progress on the spintronics proposal for quantum computing where the quantum bits (qubits) are implemented with electron spins. We calculate the exchange interaction of coupled quantum dots and present experiments, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , L. P. Kouwenhoven , Daniel Loss , C. M. Marcus

We study fluctuations of electric current in a quantum resistor and derive a general quantum-mechanical formula for the distribution of transmitted charge. For that we introduce a scheme of current measurement that involves a spin $1/2$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

The problem of detection time distribution concerns a quantum particle surrounded by detectors and consists of computing the probability distribution of where and when the particle will be detected. While the correct answer can be obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Roderich Tumulka

We propose a state estimation scheme for spins, using a modified setup of the Stern-Gerlach experiment, in which a beam of neutral spin-1/2 point particles interacts with a quadrupolar magnetic field. The proposed linear inversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , K. M. Fonseca-Romero

The time-of-arrival problem asks for the probability distribution for when a quantum particle reaches a specified location. It has been the subject of decades of debate, exemplifying the lack of a self-adjoint time observable in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Niyusha Hosseini , Maximilian P. E. Lock

System of 1/2 spin particles is observed repeatedly using Stern-Gerlach apparatuses with rotated orientations. Synthesis of such non-commuting observables is analyzed using maximum likelihood estimation as an example of quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Hradil , J. Summhammer , G. Badurek , H. Rauch

We show that the antisymmetric spinor tensor representation of spin-0 relativistic quantum mechanics provides a conserved current with positive definite timelike component, interpretable as probability density. The construction runs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Tamás Fülöp , Tamás Matolcsi

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

We discuss the electronic waiting-time distribution of a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e. a single-level quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes with magnetizations that can point in arbitrary directions. We demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Björn Sothmann