Tunnelling times, Larmor clock, and the elephant in the room

Abstract A controversy surrounding the “tunnelling time problem” stems from the seeming inability of quantum mechanics to provide, in the usual way, a definition of the duration a particle is supposed to spend in a given region of space. For this reason, the problem is often approached from an “oper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: D. Sokolovski, E. Akhmatskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89247-8