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The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing measurements is investigated. Depending on the features of the interaction Hamiltonian, the decay can be slowed (quantum Zeno effect) or accelerated (inverse quantum Zeno effect), by changing the…

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

We analyze some variants of the Zeno effect in which the frequent observation of the population of an intermediate state does not prevent the transition of the system from the initial state to a certain final state. This is achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Julio Cuadrado , Alfredo Luis

The quantum Zeno effect is deeply related to the quantum measurement process and thus studies of it may help shed light on the hitherto mysterious measurement process in quantum mechanics. Recently, the spatial quantum Zeno effect is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Xin Zhang , Chang Xu , Zhongzhou Ren , Jie Peng

The higher than classical efficiency exhibited by some quantum algorithms is here ascribed to their non-mechanistic character, which becomes evident by joining the notions of entanglement and quantum measurement. Measurement analogically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli , Dalida Monti

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 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

It is well known that by repeatedly measuring a quantum system it is possible to completely freeze its dynamics into a well defined state, a signature of the quantum Zeno effect. Here we show that for a many-body system evolving under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Alberto Biella , Marco Schiró

A discussion of the quantum Zeno effect and paradox is given. The quantum Zeno paradox claims that a continuously observed system, prepared in a state which is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian operator, never decays. To recover the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kullock , N. F. Svaiter

The phenomenon of quantum interrogation allows one to optically detect the presence of an absorbing object, without the measuring light interacting with it. In an application of the quantum Zeno effect, the object inhibits the otherwise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. G. Kwiat , A. G. White , J. R. Mitchell , O. Nairz , G. Weihs , H. Weinfurter , A. Zeilinger

Quantum Zeno Dynamics is the phenomenon that the observation or strong driving of a quantum system can freeze its dynamics to a subspace, effectively truncating the Hilbert space of the system. It represents the quantum version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Filippo Caruso

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

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

Classical limits of quantum systems are shown to lead to different conceptions of spaces different from the classical one underlying the process of quantization of such systems. The accent is put in situations where traces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Thierry Paul

Real clocks are not perfect. This must have an effect in our predictions for the behaviour of a quantum system, an effect for which we present a unified description encompassing several previous proposals. We study the relevance of clock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 I. L. Egusquiza , L. J. Garay

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

We build a discrete model that simulates the ubiquitous competition between the free internal evolution of a two-level system and the decoherence induced by the interaction with its surrounding environment. It is aimed at being as universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Antoine Soulas

We show that the quadratic short time behaviour of transition probability is a natural consequence of the inner product of the Hilbert space of the quantum system. We prove that Schr\"odinger time evolution between two successive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. K. Pati , S. V. Lawande

We point out that the quantum Zeno effect, i.e., inhibition of spontaneous decay by frequent measurements, is observable only in spectrally finite reservoirs, i.e., in cavities and waveguides, using a sequence of evolution-interrupting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Kofman , G. Kurizki

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

A numerical model of spontaneous decay continuously monitored by a distant detector of emitted particles is constructed. It is shown that there is no quantum Zeno effect in such quantum measurement if the interaction between emitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander D. Panov