Arrival time in quantum mechanics

V. Delgado, J. G. Muga

Physical Review A · 1997 · 125 citations · 34 references

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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.

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