A one-particle time of arrival operator for a free relativistic spin-0 charged particle in (1+1) dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.11.003MaRDI QIDQ307116zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Bunao, Eric A. Galapon

Publication date 1 September 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00323

zbMATH Keywords

Klein-Gordon particlequantum arrival timespin-0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: We construct a one-particle TOA operator $mathcalhatT$ canonically conjugate with the Hamiltonian describing a free, charged, spin-$0$, relativistic particle in one spatial dimension and show that it is maximally symmetric. We solve for its eigenfunctions and show that they form a complete and non-orthogonal set. Plotting the time evolution of their corresponding probability densities, it implies that the eigenfunctions become more localized at the origin at the time equal to their eigenvalues. That is, a particle being described by an eigenfunction of $mathcalhatT$ is in a state of definite arrival time at the origin and at the corresponding eigenvalue. We also calculate the TOA probability distribution of a particle in some initial state.

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