The case of escape probability as linear in short time

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2017.12.039zbMATH Open1383.81025arXiv1712.02541OpenAlexW2775782764MaRDI QIDQ1709161FDOQ1709161

Authors: Avi Marchewka, Zeev Schuss 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive rigorously the short-time escape probability of a quantum particle from its compactly supported initial state, which has a discontinuous derivative at the boundary of the support. We show that this probability is liner in time, which seems to be a new result. The novelty of our calculation is the inclusion of the boundary layer of the propagated wave function formed outside the initial support. This result has applications to the decay law of the particle, to the Zeno behavior, quantum absorption, time of arrival, quantum measurements, and more, as will be discussed separately.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02541

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary layerescape probabilityshort timelinear in timequadratic in time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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