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dc.contributor.authorAnantha Ramakrishna, S.-
dc.contributor.authorKumar, N.-
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-11T04:38:48Z-
dc.date.available2007-06-11T04:38:48Z-
dc.date.issued2002-11-
dc.identifier.citationEurophysics Letters, 2002, Vol.60, p491-497en
dc.identifier.issn0295-5075-
dc.identifier.issn1286-4854 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/2655-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en
dc.description.abstractCan the quantum-mechanical sojourn time be clocked without the clock affecting the sojourn time? Here we re-examine the previously proposed non-unitary clock, involving absorption/amplification by an added infinitesimal imaginary potential (iVi), and find it not to preserve, in general, the positivity of the sojourn time, conditional on eventual reflection or transmission. The sojourn time is found to be affected by the scattering concomitant with the mismatch, however small, due to the very clock potential (iVi) introduced for the purpose, as also by any prompt scattering involving partial waves that have not traversed the region of interest. We propose a formal procedure whereby the sojourn time so clocked can be corrected for these spurious scattering effects. The resulting conditional sojourn times are then positive-definite for an arbitrary potential, and have the proper high- and low-energy limits. We note that such a correction also applies to the Larmor clock and identical results are obtained by applying our procedure in that case as well.en
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dc.publisherIOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009269en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00665-7en
dc.rights2002 IOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.titleCorrecting the quantum clock: Conditional sojourn timesen
dc.typeArticleen
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