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Unified derivation of tunneling times from decoherence functionals
1Department of Information Science, Fukui University, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.
Physical Review Letters
|November 5, 2004
Abstract:
The four tunneling times, the Larmor time, the Büttiker-Landauer time, the Bohm-Wigner time, and the Pollak-Miller time, originally obtained from very different physical models, are derived in a unified manner from the Gell-Mann-Hartle decoherence functionals. The origin of the two types of derivatives in the expressions for these tunneling times is clarified at the level of Feynman paths.