Quantum Arrival Time Formula from Decoherent Histories

Details Quantum Arrival Time Formula from Decoherent Histories Quantum Arrival Time Formula from Decoherent Histories

2009-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1958v2

Physics Letters A 374(2):154-157 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages

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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 correct but can be negative due to backflow. Here, we show that this formula naturally arises in a decoherent histories analysis of the arrival time problem. For a variety of initial states, we show that histories crossing during different time intervals are approximately decoherent. Probabilities may therefore be assigned and coincide with the standard formula (in a semiclassical approximation), which is therefore positive for these states. However, for initial states for which there is backflow, we show that there cannot be decoherence of histories, so probabilities may not be assigned.

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