Measurement-based approach to quantum arrival times

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Damborenea, J A ^a   Egusquiza, I L ^a   Hegerfeldt, G C ^b   Muga, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EMISSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASERS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

LASER ILLUMINATED REGION; QUANTUM ARRIVAL TIMES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL PROBABILITY FLUX; QUANTUM MECHANICALLY SPREAD OUT PARTICLE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036878058     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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