Space-time properties of free-motion time-of-arrival eigenfunctions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 4336-4344

  Muga, J G ^a,b   Leavens, C R ^a   Palao, J P ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

COORDINATE REPRESENTATION; FREE MOTION; NORMALIZED QUASIEIGENSTATES; PEAKED REAL SPACE WAVE PACKETS; POSITIVE OPERATOR VALUE MEASURE; SPACE TIME PROPERTIES; TIME OF ARRIVAL EIGENFUNCTIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0032384931     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.4336     Document Type: Article

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