Arrival time in quantum mechanics
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 56 (5) , 3425-3435
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.56.3425
Abstract
A self-adjoint operator with dimensions of time is explicitly constructed, and it is shown that its complete and orthonormal set of eigenstates can be used to define consistently a probability distribution of the time of arrival at a spatial point.Keywords
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