nt - p h / 98 07 04 3 v 1 1 7 Ju l 1 99 8 Time - of - Arrival States

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  • J. Oppenheim
  • B. Reznik
  • W. G. Unruh
چکیده

Although one can show formally that a time-of-arrival operator cannot exist, one can modify the low momentum behaviour of the operator slightly so that it is self-adjoint. We show that such a modification results in the difficulty that the eigenstates are drastically altered. In an eigenstate of the modified time-of-arrival operator, the particle, at the predicted time-of-arrival, is found far away from the point of arrival with probability 1/2

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تاریخ انتشار 1998