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All you ever wanted to know about the quantum Zeno effect in 70 minutes

Quantum Physics 2014-03-17 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

This is a primer on the quantum Zeno effect, addressed to students and researchers with no previous knowledge on the subject. The prerequisites are the Schr\"odinger equation and the von Neumann notion of projective measurement.

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@article{arxiv.1311.6645,
  title  = {All you ever wanted to know about the quantum Zeno effect in 70 minutes},
  author = {Saverio Pascazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6645},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures. Based on a tutorial lecture delivered in Torun, Poland, on June 21th, 2012, during the 44th Symposium on Mathematical Physics on "New Developments in the Theory of Open Quantum Systems"