Confined quantum time of arrivals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Galapon, Eric A ^a,b   Caballar, Roland F ^a   Bahague Jr , Ricardo T ^a  

^a University of the Philippines ^*  (Philippines)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; THEOREM PROVING;

HILBERT SPACE; PAULI'S THEOREM; QUANTUM TIME OF ARRIVAL (QTOA); SEMIBOUND HAMILTONIANS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19744381397     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180406     Document Type: Article

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25. Our numerical method failed to converge up to the eigenvalues of the largest eigenvalue-eigenfunctions for γ ≠ 0, π/2. We expect though that they should behave dynamically as the rest of the eigenfunctions.