Correcting the quantum clock: conditional sojourn times

Details Correcting the quantum clock: conditional sojourn times Correcting the quantum clock: conditional sojourn times

2000-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009269v3

Europhys. Lett., Vol. 60, pp. 491-497 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Corrected and rewritten, RevTeX, 4 pages, 2 figures (ps files) included

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2002-00665-7

Can the quantum-mechanical sojourn time be clocked without the clock affecting the sojourn time? Here we re-examine the previously proposed non-unitary clock, involving absorption/amplification by an added infinitesimal imaginary potential($iV_{i}$), and find it {\it not} to preserve, in general, the positivity of the sojourn time, conditional on eventual reflection or transmission. The sojourn time is found to be affected by the scattering concomitant with the mismatch, however small, due to the very clock potential($iV_{i}$) introduced for the purpose, as also by any prompt scattering involving partial waves that have not traversed the region of interest. We propose a formal procedure whereby the sojourn time so clocked can be corrected for these spurious scattering effects. The resulting conditional sojourn times are then positive definite for an arbitrary potential, and have the proper high- and low-energy limits.

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