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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 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 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

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

The measurements in the optical test of quantum Zeno effect [Itano et al. Phys. Rev. A\underbar{41} (1990) 2295) are analyzed using the environment-induced decoherence theory, where the spontaneous emission lifetime of the relevant level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anu Venugopalan , R. Ghosh

In this paper, we show that the quantum Zeno effect occurs for any frequent quantum measurements or operations. As a result of the Zeno effect, for non-selective measurements (or trace preserving completely positive maps), the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Ying Li , David Herrera-Marti , Leong Chuan Kwek

Three different manifestations of the quantum Zeno effect are discussed, compared and shown to be physically equivalent. We look at frequent projective measurements, frequent unitary "kicks" and strong continuous coupling. In all these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

The possibility to observe quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno scenarios for atom-diatom reactive collisions is investigated for two diferent processes (F+HD and H+O_2) by means of time-dependent wave packet propagations. A novel approach is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 C. Sanz-Sanz , A. S. Sanz , T. Gonzalez-Lezana , O. Roncero , S. Miret-Artes

We experimentally study quantum Zeno effects in a parity-time (PT) symmetric cold atom gas periodically coupled to a reservoir. Based on the state-of-the-art control of inter-site couplings of atoms in a momentum lattice, we implement a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-26 Tao Chen , Wei Gou , Dizhou Xie , Teng Xiao , Wei Yi , Jun Jing , Bo Yan

The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing frequent "measurements", leading to the so-called quantum Zeno effect, is examined on the basis of a neutron-spin experiment recently proposed for its demonstration. When the spatial degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Machida , Hiromichi Nakazato , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch , Sixia Yu

We prove the quantum Zeno effect in open quantum systems whose evolution, governed by quantum dynamical semigroups, is repeatedly and frequently interrupted by the action of a quantum operation. For the case of a quantum dynamical semigroup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Simon Becker , Nilanjana Datta , Robert Salzmann

A model for quantum Zeno effect based upon an effective Schr\"odinger equation originated by the path-integral approach is developed and applied to a two-level system simultaneously stimulated by a resonant perturbation. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla , Ubaldo Tambini

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

Near term quantum hardware promises to achieve quantum supremacy. From a quantum dynamical point of view, however, it is not unambiguously clear whether fundamental peculiarities of quantum physics permit any arbitrary speed-ups in real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Dominik Šafránek , Sebastian Deffner

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 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

The evolution of a quantum system subjected to infinitely many measurements in a finite time interval is confined in a proper subspace of the Hilbert space. This phenomenon is called "quantum Zeno effect": a particle under intensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Paolo Facchi , Sandro Graffi , Marilena Ligabò

Quantum Zeno effect shows that frequent observations can slow down or even stop the unitary time evolution of an unstable quantum system. This effect can also be regarded as a physical consequence of the the statistical indistinguishability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

We analyze the experimental observations reported by Fischer et. al. [in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 040402 (2001)] by considering a system of coupled unstable bound quantum states A and B. The state B is coupled to a set of continuum states C. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-13 Kavan Modi , Anil Shaji

In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR) published a thought experiment that is entirely correct, has been demonstrated in real experiments, and is now the most famous in quantum physics. Their pioneering work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Roman Schnabel