Impossibility of distant indirect measurement of the quantum Zeno effect
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We critically study the possibility of quantum Zeno effect for indirect measurements. If the detector is prepared to detect the emitted signal from the core system, and the detector does not reflect the signal back to the core system, then we can prove the decay probability of the system is not changed by the continuous measurement of the signal and the quantum Zeno effect never takes place. This argument also applies to the quantum Zeno effect for accelerated two-level systems, unstable particle decay, etc.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0310090,
title = {Impossibility of distant indirect measurement of the quantum Zeno effect},
author = {M. Hotta and M. Morikawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0310090},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures