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Quantum decoherence refers to the phenomenon when the interaction of a quantum system with its environment results in the degradation of quantum coherence. Decoherence is considered to be the most popular mechanism responsible for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohd Shoaib Qureshi , Tabish Qureshi

We have recently argued that if one introduces a relational time in quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, the resulting quantum theory is such that pure states evolve into mixed states. The rate at which states decohere depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael Porto , Jorge Pullin

We discuss the various manifestations of quantum decoherence in the forms of dephasing, entanglement with the environment, and revelation of "which-path" information. As a specific example, we consider an electron interference experiment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford

The quantum Zeno effect is usually thought to require infinitely frequent and perfect projective measurements to freeze the dynamics of quantum states. We show that perfect freezing of quantum states can also be achieved by more realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 David Layden , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

In the context of the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory, it is shown that a class of macroscopic configurations consisting of histories of local densities (number, momentum, energy) exhibit negligible interference. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Halliwell

The entanglement witness and the entropy uncertainty are investigated by using the pseudomode theory for the open two-atom system under the quantum Zeno effect. The results show that, only when the two spectrums satisfy strong coupling with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Rongfang Liu , Hong-Mei Zou , Jianhe Yang , Danping Lin

The quantum Zeno effect is well-known for fixing a system to an eigenstate by frequent measurements. It is also known that applying frequent unitary pulses induces a Zeno subspace that can also pin the system to an eigenspace. Both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Yi-Hsiang Chen

Motivated by the recent efforts to describe the gravitational interaction as a classical channel arising from continuous quantum measurements, we study what types of dynamics can emerge from a collisional model of repeated interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Natacha Altamirano , Paulina Corona-Ugalde , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We study the quantum Zeno effect in quantum statistical mechanics within the operator algebraic framework. We formulate a condition for the appearance of the effect in W*-dynamical systems, in terms of the short-time behaviour of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas U. Schmidt

A generalized formal framework for decoherence, that can be used both in open and closed quantum systems, is sketched. In this context, the relationship between the decoherence of a closed system and the decoherence of its subsystems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Castagnino , Roberto Laura , Olimpia Lombardi

Detailed schemes are investigated for experimental verification of Quantum Zeno effect with a superconducting qubit. A superconducting qubit is affected by a dephasing noise whose spectrum is 1/f, and so the decay process of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Shiro Saito , Kosuke Kakuyanagi , Kouichi Semba

Quantum Zeno effect is conventionally interpreted by the assumption of the wave-packet collapse, in which does not involve the duration of measurement. However, we predict duration $\tau_m$ of each measurement will appear in quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Wu Wang , Ruo-Xun Zhai , C. P. Sun

It has been claimed that decoherence of open quantum systems explains the tendency of macroscopic systems to exhibit quasiclassical behavior. We show that quasiclassicality is in fact an unremarkable property, characterizing generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 Steven Weinstein

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…

General Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 J. G. Esteve , Fernando Falceto

The environment surrounding a quantum system can, in effect, monitor some of the systems observables. As a result, the eigenstates of these observables continuously decohere and can behave like classical states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wojciech H. Zurek

The different methods of reducing decoherence in quantum devices are discussed from the unified point of view based on the energy conservation principle and the concept of forbidden transitions. Minimal decoherence model, "bang-bang"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert Alicki

In this paper we study the possibility of modifying the dynamics of both quantum correlations, such as entanglement and discord, and classical correlations of an open bi-partite system by means of the quantum Zeno effect. We consider two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Francica , F. Plastina , S. Maniscalco

We experimentally demonstrate a new dynamic fashion of quantum Zeno effect in nuclear magnetic resonance systems. The frequent measurements are implemented through quantum entanglement between the target qubit(s) and the measuring qubit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Wenqiang Zheng , D. Z. Xu , Xinhua Peng , Xianyi Zhou , Jiangfeng Du , C. P. Sun

We analyse non-quadratic in time Zeno effect which arises when a few-atom state initially trapped between two high laser-induced barriers is briefly released to free evolution. We identify the Zeno time, analyse the energy distributions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 D. Sokolovski , M. Pons , T. Kamalov

A continuous projective measurement of a quantum system often leads to a suppression of the dynamics, known as the Zeno effect. Alternatively, generalized nonprojective, so-called "weak" measurements can be carried out. Such a measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Adam Bednorz , Wolfgang Belzig , Abraham Nitzan