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The quantum Zeno effect is a distinctive phenomenon in quantum mechanics, describing the nontrivial effect of frequent projective measurements on hindering the evolution of a quantum system. However, when subjected to environmental noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Haorui Chen , Shengshi Pang

By repeatedly measuring a quantum system, the evolution of the system can be slowed down (the quantum Zeno effect) or sped up (quantum anti-Zeno effect). We study these effects for a single two-level system coupled to a collection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Bilal Khalid , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

Recent studies suggest that both the quantum Zeno (increase of the natural lifetime of an unstable quantum state by repeated measurements) and anti-Zeno (decrease of the natural lifetime) effects can be made manifest in the same system by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. C. Dorlas , R. F. O'Connell

Sudden death of entanglement is a well-known effect resulting from the finite volume of separable states. We study the case when the observer has a limited measurement capability and analyse the effective entanglement, i.e. entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 K. Roszak , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

We study the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum anti-Zeno effect (QAZE) of the multimode quantum Rabi model(MQRM). We derive an analytic expression for the decay rate of the survival probability where cavity modes are initially prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Shu He , Chen Wang , Xue-Zao Ren , Li-Wei Duan , Qing-Hu Chen

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

In a quantum world, a watched arrow never moves. This is the Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE). Repeatedly asking a quantum system "are you still in your initial state?" blocks its coherent evolution through measurement back-action. Quantum Zeno…

Non-equilibrium dynamics have become a central research focus, exemplified by the counterintuitive Mpemba effect where initially hotter systems can cool faster than colder ones. Studied extensively in both classical and quantum regimes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hui Yu , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang

The dynamics of any quantum system is unavoidably influenced by the external environment. Thus, the observation of a quantum system (probe) can allow the measure of the environmental features. Here, to spectrally resolve a noise field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Nicola Dalla Pozza , Filippo Caruso

It is well known that the quantum Zeno effect can protect specific quantum states from decoherence by using projective measurements. Here we combine the theory of weak measurements with stabilizer quantum error correction and detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 G. A. Paz-Silva , A. T. Rezakhani , J. M. Dominy , D. A. Lidar

A Gedanken experiment is presented where an excited and a ground-state atom are positioned such that, within the former's half-life time, they exchange a photon with 50% probability. A measurement of their energy state will therefore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avshalom C. Elitzur , Lee Smolin

We study the dynamics of a charge qubit, consisting of a single electron in a double well potential coupled to a point-contact (PC) electrometer, using the quantum trajectories formalism. Contrary to previous predictions, we show formally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. M. Stace , S. D. Barrett

Measurement-driven transitions between extensive and sub-extensive scaling of the entanglement entropy receive interest as they illuminate the intricate physics of thermalization and control in open interacting quantum systems. Whilst this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

We show how entanglement can be used to improve the estimation of an unknown transformation. Using entanglement is always of benefit, in improving either the precision or the stability of the measurement. Examples relevant for applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 G. Mauro D'Ariano , Paoloplacido Lo Presti , Matteo G. A. Paris

The continuous transition from a low resolution quantum nondemolition measurement of light field intensity to a precise measurement of photon number is described using a generalized measurement postulate. In the intermediate regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Holger F. Hofmann

The inhibition of the decay of a quantum system by frequent measurements is known as quantum Zeno effect. Beyond the limit of projective measurements, the interplay between the unitary dynamics of the system and the coupling to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Andreas Prinz-Zwick , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Talkner

We study the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum anti-Zeno effect (QAZE) in a two-level system(TLS) interacting with an environment owning 1/f noise. Using a numerically exact method based on the thermo field dynamics(TFD) theory and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Shu He , Chen Wang , Li-Wei Duan , Qing-Hu Chen

In this work, we study the decay behavior of a two-level system under the competing influence of a dissipative environment and repetitive measurements. The sign of the second derivative of the environmental spectral density function with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Jia-Ming Zhang , Jun Jing* , Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

For one-dimensional non-interacting complex fermions, we compute numerically the probability distribution of the change in the entanglement entropy (EE) after saturation, resulting from a single measurement of the occupation number by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bo Fan , Can Yin , Antonio M. García-García

Quantum systems allow one to sense physical parameters beyond the reach of classical statistics---with resolutions greater than $1/N$, where $N$ is the number of constituent particles independently probing a parameter. In the canonical…