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The Zeno effect in a quantum computer

General Physics 2024-02-15 v2

Abstract

We present a simulation of the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) on a quantum computer as an example of the relation between this effect and the bang-bang decoupling method in control theory. Although the true QZE can not be strictly implemented on a quantum computer where all the operations, except the final measurements, must be unitary ones, we can simulate it by coupling the system to a number of ancillas and replacing the projective measurements of the QZE by suitable unitary gates.

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@article{arxiv.2402.03371,
  title  = {The Zeno effect in a quantum computer},
  author = {J. G. Esteve and Fernando Falceto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03371},
  year   = {2024}
}

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21 pages, 8 figures, typos corected

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