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Average clock times for scattering through asymmetric barriers

2013/12/14 by B. Frentz, Frentz, Bryce A., José T. Lunardi +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.4000

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Abstract

The reflection and transmission Salecker-Wigner-Peres clock times averaged over the post-selected reflected and transmitted sub-ensembles, respectively, are investigated for the one dimensional scattering of a localized wave packet through an asymmetric barrier. The dwell time averaged over the same post-selected sub-ensembles is also considered. The emergence of negative average reflection times is examined and we show that while the average over the reflected sub-ensemble eliminates the negative peaks at resonance for the clock time, it still allows negative values for transparent barriers. The saturation of the average times with the barrier width (Hartman effect) is also addressed.

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