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The symmetry of quantum theory under time reversal has long been a subject of controversy because the transition probabilities given by Born's rule do not apply backward in time. Here, we resolve this problem within a rigorous operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Ognyan Oreshkov , Nicolas J. Cerf

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

Inspired by an old idea of von Neumann, we seek a pair of commuting operators X,P which are, in a specific sense, "close" to the canonical non-commuting position and momentum operators, x,p. The construction of such operators is related to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. J. Halliwell

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 gives a constructive answer to the question whether photon states can contain or not, and to what extent, the readings of rulers and clocks. The paper first shows explicitly that, along with the momentum representation, there is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Leon

This paper is devoted to a generalisation of the quantum adiabatic theorem to a nonlinear setting. We consider a Hamiltonian operator which depends on the time variable and on a finite number of parameters and acts on a separable Hilbert…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Alain Joye

It is shown that causality violations [M. de Haan, Physica 132A, 375, 397 (1985)], emerging when the conventional definition of the time-normal operator ordering [P.L.Kelley and W.H.Kleiner, Phys.Rev. 136, A316 (1964)] is taken outside the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. I. Plimak , S. T. Stenholm

The causality issues concerning Hegerfeldt's paradox and the localization of relativistic quantum systems are addressed through a proper-time formalism of single-particle operators. The proposed description does not depend on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 E. R. F. Taillebois , A. T. Avelar

We consider the definition that might be given to the time at which a particle arrives at a given place, both in standard quantum theory and also in Bohmian mechanics. We discuss an ambiguity that arises in the standard theory in three, but…

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

This work establishes a Space-Time Connectivity Theorem for normal currents. In analogy to classical results by Federer and Fleming as well as a recent theorem for integral currents by the second author, this result allows one to witness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Paolo Bonicatto , Filip Rindler , Harry Turnbull

Drawing inspiration from Dirac's work on functions of non commuting observables, we develop a fresh approach to phase space descriptions of operators and the Wigner distribution in quantum mechanics. The construction presented here is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chaturvedi , E. Ercolessi , G. Marmo , G. Morandi , N. Mukunda , R. Simon

In this paper, a study of random times on filtered probability spaces is undertaken. The main message is that, as long as distributional properties of optional processes up to the random time are involved, there is no loss of generality in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Constantinos Kardaras

In this paper we consider a generalized classical mechanics with fractional derivatives. The generalization is based on the time-clock randomization of momenta and coordinates taken from the conventional phase space. The fractional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

We consider a number of aspects of the problem of defining time observables in quantum theory. Time observables are interesting quantities in quantum theory because they often cannot be associated with self-adjoint operators. Their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 James M Yearsley

In this paper, a new generalized Bernstein-Bezier type operators is constructed.The estimates of the moments of these operators are investigated. The rate of convergence in terms of modulus of continuity is given. Then, the equivalent…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Qiu-Lan Qi , Dan-Dan Guo , Ge Yang

This is a survey and research note on the modified Orlik conjecture derived from the division theorem introduced in [2]. The division theorem is a generalization of classical addition-deletion theorems for free arrangements. The division…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Takuro Abe

Any two infinite-dimensional (separable) Hilbert spaces are unitarily isomorphic. The sets of all their self-adjoint operators are also therefore unitarily equivalent. Thus if all self-adjoint operators can be observed, and if there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. P. Balachandran

We develop a general method to bound the spreading of an entire wavepacket under Schr\"odinger dynamics from above. This method derives upper bounds on time-averaged moments of the position operator from lower bounds on norms of transfer…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 David Damanik , Serguei Tcheremchantsev

In quantum mechanics, the selfadjoint Hilbert space operators play a triple role as observables, generators of the dynamical groups and statistical operators defining the mixed states. One might expect that this is typical of Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Gerd Niestegge

The method of the nonequilibrium statistical operator accounts for the history of a system, influence of its past history to its present state. It is suggested to take into account the finite duration of the present time moment, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-02 V. V. Ryazanov