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The Zeno and anti-Zeno effects are features of measurement-driven quantum evolution where frequent measurement inhibits or accelerates the decay of a quantum state. Either type of evolution can emerge depending on the system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 P. M. Harrington , J. T. Monroe , K. W. Murch

For a three-level system monitored by an ancilla, we show that quantum Zeno effect can be employed to control quantum jump for error correction. Further, we show that we can realize cNOT gate, and effect dense coding and teleportation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Komal Kumari , Garima Rajpoot , Sudhir Ranjan Jain

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

This is a primer on the quantum Zeno effect, addressed to students and researchers with no previous knowledge on the subject. The prerequisites are the Schr\"odinger equation and the von Neumann notion of projective measurement.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Saverio Pascazio

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

In open quantum systems, the quantum Zeno effect consists in frequent applications of a given quantum operation, e.g.~a measurement, used to restrict the time evolution (due e.g.~to decoherence) to states that are invariant under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Tim Möbus , Cambyse Rouzé

We study the Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) induced by continuous partial measurement in the presence of short-correlated noise in the system Hamiltonian. We study the survival probability and the onset of the QZE as a function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Parveen Kumar , Alessandro Romito , Kyrylo Snizhko

We show how the quantum Zeno effect can be exploited to control quantum many-body dynamics for quantum information and computation purposes. In particular, we consider a one dimensional array of three level systems interacting via a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Alex Monras , Oriol Romero-Isart

We present a simulation of the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) on a quantum computer as an example of the relation between this effect and the bang-bang decoupling method in control theory. Although the true QZE can not be strictly implemented on…

General Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 J. G. Esteve , Fernando Falceto

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

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

We describe Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) demonstrations of the quantum Zeno effect, and discuss briefly how these are related to similar phenomena in more conventional NMR experiments.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li Xiao , Jonathan A. Jones

We investigate the quantum Zeno effect as a framework for designing and analyzing quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation. We show that frequent projective measurements of an ancilla qubit register can be used to simulate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Kasra Rajabzadeh Dizaji , Ariq Haqq , Alicia B. Magann , Christian Arenz

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

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 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 quantum Zeno effect is a distinctive phenomenon in quantum mechanics, describing the nontrivial effect of frequent projective measurements on hindering the evolution of a quantum system. However, when subjected to environmental noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Haorui Chen , Shengshi Pang

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

Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in an asymmetric nonlinear optical coupler are studied. The asymmetric nonlinear optical coupler is composed of a linear waveguide ($\chi^{\left(1\right)}$) and a nonlinear waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

It was predicted that frequently repeated measurements on an unstable quantum state may alter the decay rate of the state. This is called the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) or the anti-Zeno effect (AZE), depending on whether the decay is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Koshino , A. Shimizu