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Landau-Zener transition stabilized by the enhanced quantum Zeno effect in the bosonic system

Quantum Physics 2012-10-02 v1

Abstract

We study the Landau-Zener transition with the quantum Zeno effect in an open dissipative system populated by a large number of bosons. Given the quantum Zeno effect is strong enough, both discrete and continuous quantum Zeno measurements are found to stabilize the Landau-Zener transition. Both the σx\sigma^x-type longitudinal relaxation and σz\sigma^z-type transverse relaxation in the bosonic system are analyzed as a model of continuous quantum Zeno measurements. While both of them improve the signal-to-noise ratio in terms of the ground state population, the σx\sigma^x-type relaxation can further boost measurement sensitivity and thus lead to a polynomial speedup with the number of bosons in the system. For a system that contains a large number of bosons such as in a Bose-Einstein condensate with more than 10410^4 bosons, this equates to several orders of magnitude speedup.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0173,
  title  = {Landau-Zener transition stabilized by the enhanced quantum Zeno effect in the bosonic system},
  author = {Kai Wen and Tim Byrnes and Yoshihisa Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0173},
  year   = {2012}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures