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Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2405–2409 (1995)

How Much Time Does a Tunneling Particle Spend in the Barrier Region?

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Aephraim M. Steinberg
Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

Received 9 June 1994; published in the issue dated 27 March 1995

The question in the title may be answered by considering the outcome of a “weak measurement” in the sense of Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman. Various properties of the resulting time are discussed, including its close relation to the Larmor times. It is a universal description of a broad class of measurement interactions, and its physical implications are unambiguous.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2405
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2405
PACS:
03.65.Bz, 73.40.Gk