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View SchemaA measurement-based approach to quantum arrival times
| Authors | J. A. Damborenea, I. L. Egusquiza, G. C. Hegerfeldt, J. G. Muga |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0209027 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209027 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.052104 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 65, 052104 (2002) |
Abstract
For a quantum-mechanically spread-out particle we investigate a method for determining its arrival time at a specific location. The procedure is based on the emission of a first photon from a two-level system moving into a laser-illuminated region. The resulting temporal distribution is explicitly calculated for the one-dimensional case and compared with axiomatically proposed expressions. As a main result we show that by means of a deconvolution one obtains the well known quantum mechanical probability flux of the particle at the location as a limiting distribution.
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