Tunneling times with covariant measurements

DOI10.1007/S10701-009-9275-ZzbMATH Open1175.81098arXiv0907.1792OpenAlexW3104717938WikidataQ62124827 ScholiaQ62124827MaRDI QIDQ735197FDOQ735197

Authors: Jukka Kiukas, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Reinhard F. Werner 

Publication date: 21 October 2009

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the time delay of massive, non-relativistic, one-dimensional particles due to a tunneling potential. In this setting the well-known Hartman effect asserts that often the sub-ensemble of particles going through the tunnel seems to cross the tunnel region instantaneously. An obstacle to the utilization of this effect for getting faster signals is the exponential damping by the tunnel, so there seems to be a trade-off between speedup and intensity. In this paper we prove that this trade-off is never in favor of faster signals: the probability for a signal to reach its destination before some deadline is always reduced by the tunnel, for arbitrary incoming states, arbitrary positive and compactly supported tunnel potentials, and arbitrary detectors. More specifically, we show this for several different ways to define ``the same incoming state and the same detector when comparing the settings with and without tunnel potential. The arrival time measurements are expressed in the time-covariant approach, but we also allow the detection to be a localization measurement at a later time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1792

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zbMATH Keywords

tunnelingHartman effectarrival time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

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