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The influence of repeated projective measurements on the dynamics of the state of a quantum system is studied in dependence of the time lag $\tau$ between successive measurements. In the limit of infinitely many measurements of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Juyeon Yi , Peter Talkner , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

We provide a general dynamical approach for the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in an open quantum system under repeated non-demolition measurements. In our approach the repeated measurements are described by a general dynamical model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Peng Zhang , Qing Ai , Yong Li , D. Z. Xu , C. P. Sun

After reviewing the description of an unstable state in the framework of nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics (QM) and relativistic Quantum Field Theory (QFT), we consider the effect of pulsed, ideal measurements repeated at equal time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

The evolution of a quantum system subject to measurements can be described by stochastic quantum trajectories of pure states. Instead, the ensemble average over trajectories is a mixed state evolving via a master equation. Both descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Christian Carisch , Alessandro Romito , Oded Zilberberg

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is the striking prediction that the decay of any unstable quantum state can be inhibited by sufficiently frequent observations (measurements). The consensus opinion has upheld the QZE as a general feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 A. G. Kofman , G. Kurizki

The sensitivity of a repeated measurement-based purification scheme to additional undesired couplings is analyzed, focusing on the very simple and archetypical system consisting of two two-level systems interacting with a repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 B. Militello , A. Napoli

The measurements in the optical test of quantum Zeno effect [Itano et al. Phys. Rev. A\underbar{41} (1990) 2295) are analyzed using the environment-induced decoherence theory, where the spontaneous emission lifetime of the relevant level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anu Venugopalan , R. Ghosh

We present a decoherence-based interpretation for the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) where measurements are dynamically treated as dispersive couplings of the measured system to the apparatus, rather than the von Neumann's projections. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 D. Z. Xu , Q. Ai , C. P. Sun

We innovatively propose a method to improve the performance of Rydberg atom sensors based on the repetition frequency of pulsed lasers, which is verified in experiments. Rydberg atoms excited by pulsed lasers are influenced significantly by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ke Di , Chenglin Ye , Yijie Du , Meihui Liu , Pengfei Shi , Yu Liu , Jiajia Du , Jun He

Quantum measurements are crucial to observe the properties of a quantum system, which however unavoidably perturb its state and dynamics in an irreversible way. Here we study the dynamics of a quantum system while being subject to a…

Repeated measurements of a quantum particle to check its presence in a region of space was proposed long ago [G. R. Allcock, Ann. Phys. {\bf 53}, 286 (1969)] as a natural way to determine the distribution of times of arrival at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Echanobe , A. del Campo , J. G. Muga

A "continuous measurement" Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) in the context of trapped ions is predicted. We describe the physical system and study its exact time evolution showing the appearance of Zeno Phenomena. New indicators for the occurrence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Militello , A. Messina , A. Napoli

Using numerical calculations, we compare the collective transition probabilities of many spins in random magnetic fields, subject to either frequent projective measurements, frequent phase modulations, or a mix of modulations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Wenxian Zhang , A. G. Kofman , Jun Zhuang , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

In the quantum Zeno effect, quantum measurements can block the coherent oscillation of a two level system by freezing its state to one of the measurement eigenstates. The effect is conventionally controlled by the measurement frequency.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Kyrylo Snizhko , Parveen Kumar , Alessandro Romito

We study the temporal behavior of a three-level system (such as an atom or a molecule), initially prepared in an excited state, bathed in a laser field tuned at the transition frequency of the other level. We analyze the dependence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pascazio , P. Facchi

According to the quantum Zeno effect, the frequent observations of a system can dramatically slow down its dynamical evolution. We show that the Zeno dynamics is the result of projective measurements among quantum states which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 Augusto Smerzi

If very frequent periodic measurements ascertain whether a quantum system is still in its initial state, its evolution is hindered. This peculiar phenomenon is called quantum Zeno effect. We investigate the large-time limit of the survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Paolo Facchi , Marilena Ligabò

With the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment for light fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 13360 (2025)], all related interference phenomena can be reinterpreted in terms of light particle states that either…

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

The quantum Zeno effect consists in the hindrance of the evolution of a quantum system that is very frequently monitored and found to be in its initial state at every single measurement. On the basis of the correct formula for the survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiromichi Nakazato , Mikio Namiki , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch