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Time in Quantum Mechanics - Vol. 2

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Gonzalo Muga

    1. Depto. Quimica Fisica EHU, Universidad Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

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  2. Andreas Ruschhaupt

    1. Inst. Mathematische Physik, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

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  3. Adolfo Campo

    1. Inst. Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

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  • Written as an introductory guide for newcomers to the subject
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  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 789)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Memories of Old Times: Schlick and Reichenbach on Time in Quantum Mechanics

    • José M. Sánchez-Ron
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation Revisited: Quantum Optical and Classical Maxwell Routes to Schrödinger’s Wave Equation

    • Marlan O. Scully
    Pages 15-24

  4. Post Pauli’s Theorem Emerging Perspective on Time in Quantum Mechanics

    • Eric A. Galapon
    Pages 25-63

  5. Detector Models for the Quantum Time of Arrival

    • Andreas Ruschhaupt, J. Gonzalo Muga, Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
    Pages 65-96

  6. Dwell-Time Distributions in Quantum Mechanics

    • José Muñoz, Iñigo L. Egusquiza, Adolfo del Campo, Dirk Seidel, J. Gonzalo Muga
    Pages 97-125

  7. The Quantum Jump Approach and Some of Its Applications

    • Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
    Pages 127-174

  8. Causality in Superluminal Pulse Propagation

    • Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier, Paul Narum
    Pages 175-204

  9. Experiments on Quantum Transport of Ultra-Cold Atoms in Optical Potentials

    • Martin C. Fischer, Mark G. Raizen
    Pages 205-237

  10. Quantum Post-Exponential Decay

    • Joan Martorell, J. Gonzalo Muga, Donald W.L. Sprung
    Pages 239-275

  11. Timescales in Quantum Open Systems: Dynamics of Time Correlation Functions and Stochastic Quantum Trajectory Methods in Non-Markovian Systems

    • Daniel Alonso, Inés de Vega
    Pages 277-301

  12. Double-Slit Experiments in the Time Domain

    • Gerhard G. Paulus, Dieter Bauer
    Pages 303-339

  13. Optimal Time Evolution for Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

    • Carl M. Bender, Dorje C. Brody
    Pages 341-361

  14. Atomic Clocks

    • Robert Wynands
    Pages 363-418

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 419-423
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But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: ’O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. W. H. Auden It is hard to think of a subject as rich, complex, and important as time. From the practical point of view it governs and organizes our lives (most of us are after all attached to a wrist watch) or it helps us to wonderfully ?nd our way in unknown territory with the global positioning system (GPS). More generally it constitutes the heartbeat of modern technology. Time is the most precisely measured quantity, so the second de?nes the meter or the volt and yet, nobody knows for sure what it is, puzzling philosophers, artists, priests, and scientists for centuries as one of the enduring enigmas of all cultures. Indeed time is full of contrasts: taken for granted in daily life, it requires sophisticated experimental and theoretical treatments to be accurately “produced. ” We are trapped in its web, and it actually kills us all, but it also constitutes the stuff we need to progress and realize our objectives. There is nothing more boring and monotonous than the tick-tock of a clock, but how many fascinating challenges have physicists met to realize that monotony: Quite a number of Nobel Prize winners have been directly motivated by them or have contributed 1 signi?cantly to time measurement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Depto. Quimica Fisica EHU, Universidad Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

    Gonzalo Muga

  • Inst. Mathematische Physik, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Andreas Ruschhaupt

  • Inst. Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Adolfo Campo

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