Operator normalized quantum arrival times in the presence of interactions

Details Operator normalized quantum arrival times in the presence of interactions Operator normalized quantum arrival times in the presence of interactions

2003-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311107v1

Phys. Rev. A 70, 012110 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, 5 figures, RevTex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.012110

We model ideal arrival-time measurements for free quantum particles and for particles subject to an external interaction by means of a narrow and weak absorbing potential. This approach is related to the operational approach of measuring the first photon emitted from a two-level atom illuminated by a laser. By operator-normalizing the resulting time-of-arrival distribution, a distribution is obtained which for freely moving particles not only recovers the axiomatically derived distribution of Kijowski for states with purely positive momenta but is also applicable to general momentum components. For particles interacting with a square barrier the mean arrival time and corresponding ``tunneling time'' obtained at the transmission side of the barrier becomes independent of the barrier width (Hartman effect) for arbitrarily wide barriers, i.e., without the transition to the ultra-opaque, classical-like regime dominated by wave packet components above the barrier.

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