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A probability distribution for quantum tunneling times

Quantum Physics 2018-07-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a general expression for the probability distribution of real-valued tunneling times of a localized particle, as measured by the Salecker-Wigner-Peres quantum clock. This general expression is used to obtain the distribution of times for the scattering of a particle through a static rectangular barrier and for the tunneling decay of an initially bound state after the sudden deformation of the potential, the latter case being relevant to understand tunneling times in recent attosecond experiments involving strong field ionization.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01814,
  title  = {A probability distribution for quantum tunneling times},
  author = {José T. Lunardi and Luiz A. Manzoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01814},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 8 Figures

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