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The behavior displayed by a quantum system when it is perturbed by a series of von Neumann measurements along time is analyzed. Because of the similarity between this general process with giving a deck of playing cards a shuffle, here it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 A. S. Sanz , C. Sanz-Sanz , T. Gonzalez-Lezana , O. Roncero , S. Miret-Artes

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

We prove the quantum Zeno effect in open quantum systems whose evolution, governed by quantum dynamical semigroups, is repeatedly and frequently interrupted by the action of a quantum operation. For the case of a quantum dynamical semigroup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Simon Becker , Nilanjana Datta , Robert Salzmann

The evolution of a quantum system under observation becomes retarded or even impeded. We review this ``quantum Zeno effect'' in the light of the criticism that has been raised upon a previous attempt to demonstrate it, of later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter E. Toschek , Christof Wunderlich

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

Frequent applications of a mixing quantum operation to a quantum system slow down its time evolution and eventually drive it into the invariant subspace of the named operation. We prove this phenomenon, the quantum Zeno effect, and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Robert Salzmann

The evolution of a quantum system is supposed to be impeded by measurement of an involved observable. This effect has been proven indistinguishable from the effect of dephasing the system's wave function, except in an individual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chr. Balzer , R. Huesmann , W. Neuhauser , P. E. Toschek

The problem of the time of arrival of a quantum system in a specified state is considered in the framework of the repeated measurement protocol and in particular the limit of continuous measurements is discussed. It is shown that for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Varun Dubey , Cedric Bernardin , Abhishek Dhar

A complete suppression of the exponential decay in a qubit (interacting with a squeezed vacuum reservoir) can be achieved by frequent measurements of adequately chosen observables. The observables and initial states (Zeno subspace) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Md. Manirul Ali , Po-Wen Chen , Alec Maassen van den Brink , Hsi-Sheng Goan

The quantum Zeno effect arises due to frequent observation. That implies the existence of some experimenter and its interaction with the system. In this contribution, we examine what happens for a closed system if one considers a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Petros Wallden

The quantum Zeno effect typically refers to freezing the dynamics of a quantum system through frequent observations. In general, quantum Zeno dynamics is obtained with an error of order $\mathcal{O}(1/N)$, where $N$ is the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Kasra Rajabzadeh Dizaji , Leeseok Kim , Milad Marvian , Christian Arenz

The quantum Zeno effect -- suppression of decay by frequent measurements -- was believed to occur only when the response of the detector is so quick that the initial tiny deviation from the exponential decay law is detectable. However, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuki Koshino , Akira Shimizu

The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing frequent "measurements", leading to the so-called quantum Zeno effect, is examined on the basis of a neutron-spin experiment recently proposed for its demonstration. When the spatial degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Machida , Hiromichi Nakazato , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch , Sixia Yu

The effect of repetitive measurement for quantum dynamics of driven by an intensive external force of the simple few-level systems as well as of the multilevel systems that exhibit the quantum localisation of classical chaos is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Kaulakys

This paper presents a simple model for repeated measurement of a quantum system: the evolution of a free particle, simulated by discretising the particle's position. This model is easily simulated by computer and provides a useful arena to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 David Wallace

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

We investigate whether and how the quantum Zeno effect, i.e., the inhibition of quantum evolution by frequent measurements, can be employed to isolate a quantum dot from its surrounding electron reservoir. In contrast to the often studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 N. Ahmadiniaz , M. Geller , J. König , P. Kratzer , A. Lorke , G. Schaller , R. Schützhold

Measurement is one of the most counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics. Frequent measurements of a quantum system lead to quantum Zeno dynamics where time evolution becomes confined to a subspace defined by the projections. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Wojciech Kozlowski , Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez , Igor B. Mekhov

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

Quantum Zeno effect shows that frequent observations can slow down or even stop the unitary time evolution of an unstable quantum system. This effect can also be regarded as a physical consequence of the the statistical indistinguishability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan