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  • Date:15רביעינובמבר 2017

    Chemical and Biological Physics Dept Guest Seminar

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    שעה
    10:00
    כותרת
    Feynman path integral approach to tunnelling time
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    אולם הרצאות ע"ש גרהרד שמידט
    מרצה
    Dr Alexandra Landsman
    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
    מארגן
    המחלקה לפיסיקה כימית וביולוגית
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about The tunnelling time problem is almost as old as quantum mech...»
    The tunnelling time problem is almost as old as quantum mechanics itself and is a highly debated subject. Time is not a quantum observable, and therefore many conflicting theories have been developed over the decades. Here we present the Feynman path integral (FPI) approach to tunnelling time, and show how it can be used to calculate tunnelling time probability amplitudes. The FPI approach also sheds new light on four best-known definitions of tunnelling times (Buttiker- Landauer, Pollak-Miller, Eisenbud-Wigner, and Larmor), which although derived using very different physical models, can also be represented as different averages using FPI tunnelling time probability amplitudes. Relation between the FPI approach, other tunnelling time definitions and the theory of weak measurement is also reviewed.
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