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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 is the prediction, going back to Alan Turing, that the decay of an unstable system can be slowed down by measuring it frequently enough. It was also noticed later that the opposite effect, i.e., enhancement of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-10 Sergey Belan , Vladimir Parfenyev

Recently highly-efficient quantum engines were devised by exploiting the stochastic energy changes induced by quantum measurement. Here we show that such an engine can be based on an interaction-free measurement, in which the meter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Cyril Elouard , Mordecai Waegell , Benjamin Huard , Andrew N. Jordan

We develop a protocol based on 2M pairwise interacting qubits, which through Quantum Zeno Effect controls the entanglement distribution of the system. We also show that if the coupling constants are different the QZE may be used to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 J. G. Oliveira , R. Rossi , M. C. Nemes

We propose to use the continuous version of the quantum Zeno effect to eliminate leakage to higher energy states in superconducting quantum computing architectures based on Josephson phase and flux qubits. We are particularly interested in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Andrei Galiautdinov

Recent experiments demonstrate highly tunable nonreciprocal coupling between levitated nanoparticles due to optical binding [Rieser et al., Science 377, 987 (2022)]. In view of recent experiments cooling nanoparticles to the quantum regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Henning Rudolph , Uroš Delić , Klaus Hornberger , Benjamin A. Stickler

The quantum Zeno effect reveals that the continuous observation of a quantum system can result in significant alterations to its evolution. Here, we present a method for establishing polarization entanglement between two initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ian C. Nodurft , Harry C. Shaw , Ryan T. Glasser , Brian T. Kirby , Thomas A. Searles

Interaction-free measurement and quantum interrogation schemes can help in the detection of particles without interacting with them in a classical sense. We present a density matrix study of a quantum interrogation system designed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

In the context of quantum state engineering we analyze the effect of observation on nonlinear optical $n$-photon Fock state generation. We show that it is possible to truncate the vacuum component from an arbitrary photon number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tae-Gon Noh

The quantum Zeno effect is usually thought to require infinitely frequent and perfect projective measurements to freeze the dynamics of quantum states. We show that perfect freezing of quantum states can also be achieved by more realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 David Layden , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

Entanglement, the essential resource in quantum information processing, should be witnessed in many tasks such as quantum computing and quantum communication. The conventional entanglement witness method, relying on an idealized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 Ping Xu , Xiao Yuan , Luo-Kan Chen , He Lu , Xing-Can Yao , Xiongfeng Ma , Yu-Ao Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

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

Robust, simple, and flexible quantum key distribution (QKD) is vital for realising practical applications of this technique. Contrary to typical phase-coded QKD schemes, the plug-and-play QKD design requires only one arm-length-insensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ruoyang Qi , Haoran Zhang , Jiancun Gao , Liuguo Yin , Gui-Lu Long

Escaping from a complex maze, by exploring different paths with several decision-making branches in order to reach the exit, has always been a very challenging and fascinating task. Wave field and quantum objects may explore a complex…

In open quantum systems, the precision of metrology inevitably suffers from the noise. {In Markovian open quantum dynamics, the precision can not be improved by using entangled probes although the measurement time is effectively shortened.}…

Quantum computation has been growing rapidly in both theory and experiments. In particular, quantum computing devices with a large number of qubits have been developed by IBM, Google, IonQ, and others. The current quantum computing devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Gupta , Rongxin Xia , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

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

We introduce a novel method that simultaneously isolates a quantum computer from decoherence and enables the controlled implementation of computational gates. We demonstrate a quantum computing model that utilizes a qubit's motion to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Barbara Šoda , Pierre-Antoine Graham , T. Rick Perche , Gurpahul Singh

This is a study of the security of the Coherent One-Way (COW) protocol for quantum cryptography, proposed recently as a simple and fast experimental scheme. In the zero-error regime, the eavesdropper Eve can only take advantage of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Cyril Branciard , Nicolas Gisin , Norbert Lutkenhaus , Valerio Scarani

As a precious global resource in quantum information, genuine tripartite nonlocality(GTN) can be quantified by violating Svetlichny inequality. However, there is still no analytical expression for the general three-qubit states due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Zi-Yu Xiong , Yong-Jun Xiao , Ye-Qi Zhang , Qi-Liang He