Abstract
The unexpected connection is unravelled between the collapse of the wave function on the appearance of particle and the quantum time-of-arrival problem in one dimension. To do so, a theory of quantum first time of arrival is developed in the interacting case for arbitrary arrival point in one dimension based on a self-adjoint and canonical coarse graining of a time-of-arrival operator that derives the classical time-of-arrival observable. The appearance of particle in quantum mechanics is then considered in the light of this theory. It is found that the appearance of particle arises as a combination of the collapse of the initial wave function into one of the eigenfunctions of the time-of-arrival operator, followed by a unitary Schrödinger evolution of the eigenfunction.
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