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The time evolution of an unstable quantum mechanical system coupled with an external measuring agent is investigated. According to the features of the interaction Hamiltonian, a quantum Zeno effect (hindered decay) or an inverse quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

The purpose of this paper is to study the interaction between a two-level system and two continuous-mode photons. Two scenarios are investigated: Case 1, how a two-level system changes the pulse shapes of two input photons propagating in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Zhiyuan Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Nina H. Amini

Using a dynamical quantum Zeno effect, we propose a general approach to control the coupling between a two-level system (TLS) and its surroundings, by modulating the energy level spacing of the TLS with a high frequency signal. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Lan Zhou , S. Yang , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

The time evolution of some quantum states can be slowed down or even stopped under frequent measurements. This is the usual quantum Zeno effect. Here, we report an operator quantum Zeno effect, in which the evolution of some physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Shu-Chao Wang , Ying Li , Xiang-Bin Wang , Leong Chuan Kwek

We experimentally study quantum Zeno effects in a parity-time (PT) symmetric cold atom gas periodically coupled to a reservoir. Based on the state-of-the-art control of inter-site couplings of atoms in a momentum lattice, we implement a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-26 Tao Chen , Wei Gou , Dizhou Xie , Teng Xiao , Wei Yi , Jun Jing , Bo Yan

We study the coexistence of the quantum Zeno effect and non-Markovianity for a system decaying in a structured bosonic environment and subject to a control field. The interaction with the environment induces decay from the excited to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Antti Karlsson , Francesco Francica , Jyrki Piilo , Francesco Plastina

The evolution of a quantum system undergoing very frequent measurements takes place in a subspace of the total Hilbert space (quantum Zeno effect). The dynamical properties of this evolution are investigated and several examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Facchi , V. Gorini , G. Marmo , S. Pascazio , E. C. G. Sudarshan

If frequent measurements ascertain whether a quantum system is still in a given subspace, it remains in that subspace and a quantum Zeno effect takes place. The limiting time evolution within the projected subspace is called quantum Zeno…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-04 Paolo Facchi , Marilena Ligabò

Simply speaking quantum Zeno effect for an unstable quantum system represents total decay probability decrease by frequent decay detection. Analogously simply speaking quantum anti-Zeno effect for an unstable quantum system represents total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Vladan Pankovic

Achieving decoherence-free quantum state manipulation is a paramount goal in modern quantum technologies. To this end, we demonstrate its implementation in a two-dimensional dissipative photonic graphene featuring exceptional rings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Qing-Yang Qiu , Guoqing Tian , Zhi-Guang Lu , Franco Nori , Xin-You Lü

We analyze the experimental observations reported by Fischer et. al. [in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 040402 (2001)] by considering a system of coupled unstable bound quantum states A and B. The state B is coupled to a set of continuum states C. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-13 Kavan Modi , Anil Shaji

In this work we show that by frequent measurements of adequately chosen observables, a complete suppression of the decay in an exponentially decaying two level system interacting with a squeezed bath is obtained. The observables for which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Mundarain , M. Orszag , J. Stephany

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

If unitary evolution of a quantum system is interrupted by a sequence of measurements we call the dynamics as quantum Zeno dynamics. We show that under quantum Zeno dynamics not only the transition probability (leading to quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arun Kumar Pati , Suresh V. Lawande

Surface diffusion of interacting adsorbates is here analyzed within the context of two fundamental phenomena of quantum dynamics, namely the quantum Zeno effect and the anti-Zeno effect. The physical implications of these effects are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-24 H. C. Pennate-Rodriguez , R. Martinez-Casado , G. Rojas-Lorenzo , A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

The control of thermal decoherence via dynamical decoupling and via the quantum Zeno effect (Zeno control) is investigated for a model of trapped ion, where the dynamics of two low lying hyperfine states undergoes decoherence due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 S. Tasaki , A. Tokuse , P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

Until very recently, two-photon interaction processes have been considered only as arising from second- or higher-order effects in driven systems, and so limited to extremely small coupling strengths. However, a variety of novel physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 Simone Felicetti , Alexandre Le Boité

As a classical state, for instance a digitized image, is transferred through a classical channel, it decays inevitably with the distance due to the surroundings' interferences. However, if there are enough number of repeaters, which can…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-12-07 Shi-Jian Gu , Li-Gang Wang , Zhi-Guo Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

Periodic deterministic bang-bang dynamical decoupling and the quantum Zeno effect are known to emerge from the same physical mechanism. Both concepts are based on cycles of strong and frequent kicks provoking a subdivision of the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Alexander Hahn , Daniel Burgarth , Kazuya Yuasa

The quantum Zeno effect is a striking feature of quantum mechanics with foundational implications and practical applications in quantum control, error suppression, and error correction. In recent years, the effect has branched off into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Sacha Greenfield , Archana Kamal , Justin Dressel , Eli Levenson-Falk