Quantum arrival time for open systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Yearsley, J M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CLASSICAL ARRIVAL TIME; DECOHERENCE; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; LINDBLAD; MASTER EQUATIONS; POSITIVE OPERATOR; PROBABILITY CURRENT; QUANTUM ARRIVAL TIME; QUANTUM BROWNIAN MOTIONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77955101720     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.012116     Document Type: Article

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