Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jun 12;102(23):230405. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.230405. Epub 2009 Jun 12.
Physical review letters
D Sokolovski
PMID: 19658912 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.230405
We show that an electrostatic qubit located near a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a symmetric double-well potential can be used to measure the duration the qubit has spent in one of its quantum states. The strong, medium, and weak measurement regimes are analyzed. The analogy between the residence and the traversal (tunnelling) times is highlighted.