paper

Questioning the adequacy of certain quantum arrival-time distributions

arXiv:2105.14744 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.104.042214

Abstract

It is shown that a class of exponentially decaying time-of-arrival probability distributions suggested by Włodarz, Marchewka and Schuss, and Jurman and Nikolić, as well as a semiclassical distribution implicit in time-of-flight momentum measurements, do not show the expected behavior for a Gaussian wave train. This casts doubts on the physical adequacy of these arrival-time proposals. In contrast, the quantum flux distribution (a special case of the Bohmian arrival-time distribution) displays the expected behavior.

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