Quantum backflow states from eigenstates of the regularized current operator

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/47/475303MaRDI QIDQ2873631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. J. Halliwell, E. Gillman, O. Lennon, M. Patel, I. Ramirez

Publication date 24 January 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2909

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We present an exhaustive class of states with quantum backflow -- the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum. They are characterized by a general function of momenta subject to very weak conditions. Such a family of states is of interest in the light of a recent experimental proposal to measure backflow. We find one particularly simple state which has surprisingly large backflow -- about 41 percent of the lower bound on flux derived by Bracken and Melloy. We study the eigenstates of a regularized current operator and we show how some of these states, in a certain limit, lead to our class of backflow states. This limit also clarifies the correspondence between the spectrum of the regularized current operator, which has just two non-zero eigenvalues in our chosen regularization, and the usual current operator.

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