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An Operational and Stochastic Formulation of Time in Quantum Mechanics and its Application to the Time of Arrival Problem

Beau, Mathieu

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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10.13140/rg.2.2.30614.61762

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The quantum time of arrival (TOA) problem requires the statistics of measured arrival times given only the initial state of a particle. Following the standard framework of quantum theory, the problem translates into finding an appropriate quantum image of the classical arrival time TC(q,p), usually in operator form T̂. In this paper, we consider the problem anew within the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. The resulting quantum image is a real-valued and time-reversal symmetric function TM(q,p) in formal series of ℏ2 with the classical arrival time as the leading term. It is obtained directly from the Moyal bracket relation with the system Hamiltonian and is hence interpreted as a Moyal deformation of the classical TOA. We investigate its properties and discuss how it bypasses the known obstructions to quantization by showing the isomorphism between TM(q,p) and the rigged Hilbert space TOA operator constructed in Pablico and Galapon [Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 153 (2023)], which always satisfy the time-energy canonical commutation relation for arbitrary analytic potentials. We then examine TOA problems for a free particle and a quartic oscillator potential as examples.