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The suppression of spin-exchange relaxation in dense alkali-metal vapors discovered in 1973 and governing modern atomic magnetometers is here reformulated in terms of quantum measurement theory and the quantum Zeno effect. This provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. K. Kominis

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

The temporal evolution of an unstable quantum mechanical system undergoing repeated measurements is investigated. In general, by changing the time interval between successive measurements, the decay can be accelerated (inverse quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Facchi , H. Nakazato , S. Pascazio

A neutron-spin experimental test of the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is discussed from a practical point of view, when the nonideal efficiency of the magnetic mirrors, used for filtering the spin state, is taken into account. In the idealized…

In this work, we study the decay behavior of a two-level system under the competing influence of a dissipative environment and repetitive measurements. The sign of the second derivative of the environmental spectral density function with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Jia-Ming Zhang , Jun Jing* , Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

After reviewing the description of an unstable state in the framework of nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics (QM) and relativistic Quantum Field Theory (QFT), we consider the effect of pulsed, ideal measurements repeated at equal time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

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 observe the quantum Zeno effect -- where the act of measurement slows the rate of quantum state transitions -- in a superconducting qubit using linear circuit quantum electrodynamics readout and a near-quantum-limited following…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-20 D. H. Slichter , C. Müller , R. Vijay , S. J. Weber , A. Blais , I. Siddiqi

Frequent Measurements on an unstable particle located at observable initial state freeze the particle on this state, known as quantum Zeno effect [1-14]. Measurements on an observable subspace further open the prelude of quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Tung-Ho Shieh , Kun-Yuan Wu , Hsiu-Fen Kao , Kuan-Ming Hung

Frequent measurements can modify the decay of an unstable quantum state with respect to the free dynamics given by Fermi's golden rule. In a landmark article, Nature 405, 546 (2000), Kofman and Kurizki concluded that in quantum decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Emmanuel Lassalle , Caroline Champenois , Brian Stout , Vincent Debierre , Thomas Durt

We study the coexistence of the quantum Zeno effect and non-Markovianity for a system decaying in a structured bosonic environment and subject to a control field. The interaction with the environment induces decay from the excited to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Antti Karlsson , Francesco Francica , Jyrki Piilo , Francesco Plastina

Consequences of the deviation from the linear on time quantum transition probabilities leading to the nonexponential decay law and to the so-called Zeno effect are analysed. Main features of the quantum Zeno and quantum anti-Zeno effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gontis , B. Kaulakys

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

Quantum decoherence has been studied using nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR). By choosing one qubit to simulate environment, we examine the decoherence behavior of two quantum systems: a one qubit system and a two qubit system. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jingfu Zhang , Zhiheng Lu , Lu Shan , Zhiwei Deng

We study the measurement-induced enhancement of the spontaneous decay (called quantum anti-Zeno effect) for a two-level subsystem, where measurements are treated as couplings between the excited state and an auxiliary state rather than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Qing Ai , Dazhi Xu , Su Yi , A. G. Kofman , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

The quantum Zeno effect is the suppression of Hamiltonian evolution by repeated observation, resulting in the pinning of the state to an eigenstate of the measurement observable. Using measurement only, control of the state can be achieved…

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

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

We demonstrate that repeated measurements in disordered systems can induce quantum anti-Zeno effect under certain condition to enhance quantum transport. The enhancement of energy transfer is really exhibited with a simple model under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Keisuke Fujii , Katsuji Yamamoto

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