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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

An operational time of arrival is introduced using a realistic position and momentum measurement scheme. The phase space measurement involves the dynamics of a quantum particle probed by a measuring device. For such a measurement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Kochanski , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

We present an introduction to the backflow effect in quantum mechanics -- the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Yearsley , J. J. Halliwell

We develop a new conception for the quantum mechanical arrival time distribution from the perspective of Bohmian mechanics. A detection probability for detectors sensitive to quite arbitrary spacetime domains is formulated. Basic positivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Gebhard Gruebl , Klaus Rheinberger

We investigate the backflow effect in elementary quantum mechanics - the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. M. Yearsley , J J. Halliwell , R. Hartshorn , A. Whitby

Quantum backflow is the classically-forbidden effect pertaining to the fact that a particle with a positive momentum may exhibit a negative probability current at some space-time point. We investigate how this peculiar phenomenon extends to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Maximilien Barbier

Based on the principle that arrival time and position are simultaneously measurable quantities a simple formula is derived for the arrival time probability density in nonrelativistic quantum theory.

General Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 P. Hraskó

The arrival time probability distribution is defined by analogy with the classical mechanics. The difficulty of requirement to have the values of non-commuting operators is circumvented using the concept of weak measurements. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

Quantum backflow is usually understood as a quantum interference phenomenon where probability current of a quantum particle points in the opposite direction to particle's momentum. Here, we quantify the amount of quantum backflow for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Marek Miller , Woo Chee Yuan , Rainer Dumke , Tomasz Paterek

The probability density of a quantum particle moving freely within a circular ring can exhibit local flow patterns inconsistent with its angular momentum, a phenomenon known as quantum backflow. In this study, we examine a quantum particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Arseni Goussev , Felix Quinque , Jaewoo Joo , Andrew Burbanks

It is argued that the time-of-arrival cannot be precisely defined and measured in quantum mechanics. By constructing explicit toy models of a measurement, we show that for a free particle it cannot be measured more accurately then $\Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. Aharonov , J. Oppenheim , S. Popescu , B. Reznik , W. G. Unruh

We study the phenomenon of quantum backflow in tight-binding systems with complex couplings, considering different boundary conditions and lattice sizes. Backflow is an intrinsically non-classical effect where the density flux associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francisco Ricardo Torres Arvizu , Adrián Ortega , Hernán Larralde

We introduce a formalism for the calculation of the time of arrival t at a detector of particles traveling through interacting environments. We develop a general formulation that employs quantum canonical transformations from the free to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Leon , J. Julve , P. Pitanga , F. J. de Urries

This paper compares the proposal made in previous papers for a quantum probability distribution of the time of arrival at a certain point with the corresponding proposal based on the probability current density. Quantitative differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Delgado

We propose a covariant algorithm for relativistic ideal measurements and for relativistic continuous measurements, its non-relativistic limit results the algorithm of the Event-Enhanced Quantum Theory. Therefore an additional intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Ruschhaupt

Measurable quantities that have positive values in classical dynamical systems need not to be positive in quantum theory. For example, consider a free quantum mechanical particle in one dimension. There are quantum states in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Daniela Cadamuro

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

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

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

Time of arrival refers to the time a particle takes after emission to impinge upon a suitably idealized detector surface. Within quantum theory, no generally accepted solution exists so far for the corresponding probability distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Maik Reddiger
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