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Barrier interaction time and the Salecker-Wigner quantum clock: Wave-packet approach

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics, Dankook University, Dongnamgu Anseodong 29, Cheonan 330-714 (Korea, Republic of)
The time-of-flight measurement approach of Peres based on the Salecker-Wigner quantum clock is applied to the one-dimensional scattering of a wave packet from a rectangular barrier. By directly evaluating the expectation value of the clock-time operator in the asymptotic states of wave packet long after the scattering process, we derive an average wave-packet clock time for the barrier interaction, which is expressed as an average of the stationary-state clock time over all possible initial scattering states of the wave packet. We show that the average wave-packet clock time is identical to the average dwell time of a wave packet.
OSTI ID:
21313205
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 80; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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