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The dynamical quantum Zeno effect is studied in the context of von Neumann algebras. We identify a localized subalgebra on which the Zeno dynamics acts by automorphisms. The Zeno dynamics coincides with the modular dynamics of that…

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

The basis of the so-called Zenon effect in Quantum Mechanics, is the limiting behavior of the unitary solution of Schroedinger's equation, under repeated measurments. We examine the limit of a sequence of operators complosed by a usual…

General Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Nikos Bagis

A semi-classical non-Hamiltonian model of a spontaneous collapse of unstable quantum system is given. The time evolution of the system becomes non-Hamiltonian at random instants of transition of pure states to reduced ones, given by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Belavkin , P. Staszewski

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

We study the effect of frequent projective measurements on the dynamics of quantum self-sustaining systems, by considering the prototypical example of the quantum Van der Pol oscillator. Quantum fluctuations are responsible for phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Wenlin Li , Najmeh Es'haqi-Sani , Wen-Zhao Zhang , David Vitali

In sharp contrast to its classical counterpart, quantum measurement plays a fundamental role in quantum mechanics and blurs the essential distinction between the measurement apparatus and the objects under investigation. An appealing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Xiang Lv , Jun Jing

We report the first observation of the Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno effects in an unstable system. Cold sodium atoms are trapped in a far-detuned standing wave of light that is accelerated for a controlled duration. For a large acceleration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Fischer , B. Gutierrez-Medina , M. G. Raizen

It is well known that repeated projective measurements can either speed up (the Zeno effect) or slow down (the anti-Zeno effect) quantum evolution. Until now, however, studies of these effects for a two-level system interacting strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ghazi Khan , Hudaiba Soomro , Muhammad Usman Baig , Irfan Javed , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

In few-qubit systems, the quantum Zeno effect arises when measurement occurs sufficiently frequently that the spins are unable to relax between measurements. This can compete with Hamiltonian terms, resulting in interesting relaxation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-05 Umar Javed , Riccardo J. Valencia-Tortora , Jamir Marino , Vadim Oganesyan , Michael Kolodrubetz

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…

Quantum optimization algorithms promise advantages for difficult problems but are costly to simulate and analyze on classical machines. Recently, constrained quantum optimization has been investigated through the lens of Quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

We construct an algorithm for suppressing the transitions of a quantum mechanical system, initially prepared in a subspace P of the full Hilbert space of the system, to outside this subspace by subjecting it to a sequence of unequally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Deepak Dhar , Lov K. Grover , Shasanka M. Roy

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

The experiment of Etano et al which demonstrated the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) in an optical experiment was explained by Frerichs and Schenzle without invoking the wave function collapse. In this report it is proposed that the collapse does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Anu Venugopalan , R. Ghosh

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) predicts a slow-down of the time development of a system under rapidly repeated ideal measurements, and experimentally this was tested for an ensemble of atoms using short laser pulses for non-selective state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Almut Beige , Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

In a renormalizable theory the survival probability of an unstable quantum state features divergences as a consequence of the rapid growth of the density of states with energy. Introducing a high energy cutoff $\Lambda$, the transient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-01 Daniel Boyanovsky

The projection postulate has been used to predict a slow-down of the time evolution of the state of a system under rapidly repeated measurements, and ultimately a freezing of the state. To test this so-called quantum Zeno effect an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Almut Beige , Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

Quantum tunneling is a fundamental quantum mechanical effect involved in plenty of physical phenomena. Its control would impact these phenomena and the technologies based on them. We show that the quantum tunneling probability through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Miguel A. Porras , Nilo Mata , Isabel Gonzalo

We analyze the short-time behavior of the survival probability in the frame of the Friedrichs model for different formfactors. We have shown that this probability is not necessary analytic at the time origin. The time when the quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. Antoniou , E. Karpov , G. Pronko , E. Yarevsky

We theoretically investigate the stochastic dynamics of two qubits subject to one- and two-site correlated continuous weak measurements. When measurements dominate over the local unitary evolution, the system's dynamics is constrained and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Severino Zeni , Gobinda Chakraborty , Alessandro Romito , Alberto Biella