| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Role of Time in the Early Days of Quantum Theory | p. 1 |
| The Thirties and Forties | p. 5 |
| The Fifties | p. 7 |
| The Sixties | p. 12 |
| The Seventies: the Zeno Effect, TOA Distributions, POVMs | p. 16 |
| Some Recent Trends | p. 18 |
| Discussion | p. 24 |
| References | p. 25 |
| Characteristic Times in One-Dimensional Scattering | p. 31 |
| Introduction | p. 31 |
| Scattering Theory in 1D | p. 33 |
| A Measure of the Collision Duration: The Dwell Time | p. 42 |
| Importance of the Phases: Time Delays | p. 46 |
| Time Dependence of Survival Probability: Exponential Decay and Deviations | p. 55 |
| Other Characteristic Times of Wave Propagation | p. 61 |
| References | p. 69 |
| The Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation | p. 73 |
| Introduction | p. 73 |
| The Three-fold Role of Time in Quantum Theory | p. 73 |
| Relation Between External Time and Energy Spread | p. 76 |
| Relations Involving Intrinsic Time | p. 82 |
| Quantum Clock | p. 89 |
| Relations Based on Time Observables | p. 91 |
| Conclusion | p. 103 |
| References | p. 104 |
| Jump Time and Passage Time: The Duration of a Quantum Transition | p. 107 |
| Introduction | p. 107 |
| Jump Time | p. 109 |
| Corroborations of the Definition | p. 111 |
| Passage Time | p. 116 |
| Experimental Discrimination among Quantum Measurement Theories and "Special States" | p. 120 |
| Discussion | p. 124 |
| References | p. 126 |
| Bohm Trajectory Approach to Timing Electrons | p. 129 |
| Introduction | p. 129 |
| Motivation for Using a Trajectory Approach | p. 130 |
| Bohm's Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory | p. 131 |
| Conventional Approaches to Timing Quantum Particles from the Perspective of Bohmian Mechanics | p. 140 |
| Spin-Dependent Arrival-Time Distributions for Nonrelativistic Electrons | p. 147 |
| Protective Measurements and Bohm Trajectories | p. 150 |
| Concluding Comments | p. 156 |
| References | p. 160 |
| Decoherent Histories for Space-Time Domains | p. 163 |
| Introduction | p. 163 |
| Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory | p. 167 |
| Space-Time Coarse Grainings | p. 170 |
| Decoherence of Space-Time Coarse-Grained Histories in the Quantum Brownian Motion Model | p. 172 |
| A Detector Model | p. 178 |
| A Comparison of the Decoherent Histories Result with the Detector Result | p. 182 |
| Timeless Questions in Quantum Theory | p. 184 |
| Discussion | p. 187 |
| An Update for the Second Edition | p. 189 |
| References | p. 190 |
| Quantum Traversal Time, Path Integrals and 'Superluminal' Tunnelling | p. 195 |
| Introduction | p. 195 |
| Path Decomposition. The Clocked Schrodinger Equation. Coarse Graining | p. 196 |
| Meters and Measurements. Uncertainty Relation | p. 200 |
| Averages. Complex Times. Weak Measurements | p. 202 |
| Examples: Free motion and Tunnelling | p. 206 |
| Semiclassical Limit. How Long Does it Take for a Particle to Tunnel? | p. 207 |
| Larmor Clock as a Realistic Meter | p. 208 |
| Traversal Time Analysis | p. 214 |
| Traversal Time and the "Superluminal" Tunnelling | p. 216 |
| Relativistic Traversal Time | p. 220 |
| "Superluminal" Paradox and the Speed of Information Transfer | p. 225 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 230 |
| References | p. 231 |
| Quantum Clocks and Stopwatches | p. 235 |
| Introduction | p. 235 |
| What is a Clock? | p. 237 |
| The Salecker-Wigner Clock | p. 238 |
| The Larmor Clock | p. 248 |
| Other Clocks | p. 256 |
| Simple "Time-dependent" Clocks: the Kick Clock | p. 263 |
| Decoherence in Time | p. 270 |
| References | p. 275 |
| The Local Larmor Clock, Partial Densities of States, and Mesoscopic Physics | p. 279 |
| Introduction | p. 279 |
| The Scattering Matrix and the Local Larmor Clock | p. 282 |
| Absorption and Emission of Particles: Injectivities and Emissivities | p. 286 |
| Potential Perturbations | p. 289 |
| Generalized Bardeen Formulae | p. 290 |
| Voltage Probe and Inelastic Scattering | p. 291 |
| AC Conductance of Mesoscopic Conductors | p. 293 |
| Transition from Capacitive to Inductive Response | p. 294 |
| Partial Density of States Matrix | p. 296 |
| Local Friedel Sum Rule | p. 300 |
| Discussion | p. 301 |
| References | p. 301 |
| "Standard" Quantum-Mechanical Approach to Times of Arrival | p. 305 |
| Introduction | p. 305 |
| Kijowski's Time-of-Arrival Distribution | p. 306 |
| POVMs | p. 308 |
| The POVM of the Aharonov-Bohm Time Operator | p. 315 |
| Other Time Operators | p. 320 |
| Arrival States | p. 323 |
| Times of Arrival for Identical Particles | p. 327 |
| How can Kijowski's distribution be measured? | p. 329 |
| Conclusions and Outlook | p. 329 |
| References | p. 330 |
| Experimental Issues in Quantum-Mechanical Time Measurement | p. 333 |
| Time Operators Versus Real Measurements | p. 333 |
| Arrival-Time Measurements | p. 335 |
| Dwell or Interaction Time Measurements | p. 342 |
| Weak Measurements | p. 347 |
| Conclusion | p. 350 |
| References | p. 351 |
| Microwave Experiments on Tunneling Time | p. 355 |
| An Overview of Theoretical Models of Tunneling in the Electromagnetic Framework | p. 355 |
| Sub cutoff Microwave Propagation in Waveguide | p. 374 |
| Delay-Time Measurements in a Diffraction Experiment | p. 383 |
| Tunneling Time in Frustrated Total Reflection | p. 389 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 395 |
| References | p. 395 |
| The Two-State Vector Formalism: An Updated Review | p. 399 |
| Introduction | p. 399 |
| Descriptions of Quantum Systems | p. 399 |
| Ideal Quantum Measurements | p. 405 |
| Weak Measurements | p. 409 |
| The Quantum Time-Translation Machine | p. 424 |
| Time Symmetry | p. 433 |
| Protective Measurements | p. 441 |
| The TSVF and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Theory | p. 443 |
| References | p. 444 |
| Index | p. 449 |
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