Resonant delay in a stationary quantum clock: Lifting the threshold mask

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02718v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:00:05 GMT
• Title: Resonant delay in a stationary quantum clock: Lifting the threshold mask
• Abstract summary: We revisit the Salecker--Wigner--Peres stationary quantum clock as a phase-sensitive scattering observable.<n>For the attractive square well, this threshold is inherited from the vanishing exterior momentum and the associated scattering matching.<n>We derive the exact stationary clock time for the square well and introduce a new threshold-subtracted clock observable.
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• Abstract: Quantum transit times have a long history of inequivalent definitions, including phase times, dwell times, and quantum-clock constructions. In this context we revisit the Salecker--Wigner--Peres stationary quantum clock as a phase-sensitive scattering observable, with clock time defined by the energy derivative of the transmission phase shift across the interaction region. For real compactly supported one-dimensional potentials, we show that the raw stationary Peres clock generically contains a universal \(1/\sqrt{E}\) continuum-edge term whose coefficient is fixed by low-energy scattering data. For the attractive square well, this threshold singularity is inherited from the vanishing exterior momentum and the associated scattering matching, rather than from resonant delay itself. We derive the exact stationary clock time for the square well and introduce a new threshold-subtracted clock observable. Away from exceptional zero-energy tuning, the subtraction removes the universal low-energy term and isolates the resonant contribution. Comparison with the dwell time and the transmission Wigner phase delay shows that the threshold-subtracted clock acquires the expected local Lorentzian form near isolated transmission resonances. Near the continuum edge, if \(\varepsilon\) denotes the detuning from threshold, the resonant peak grows only as \(\varepsilon^{-1/2}\), whereas the unsubtracted threshold background grows as \(\varepsilon^{-3/2}\). A symmetric barrier--well--barrier cavity and a numerical asymmetric two-step attractive well provide complementary controls. The result is a new threshold-subtracted stationary-clock candidate that separates universal threshold kinematics from pole-sensitive resonant delay.

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