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The quantum Zeno effect is recast in terms of an adiabatic theorem when the measurement is described as the dynamical coupling to another quantum system that plays the role of apparatus. A few significant examples are proposed and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

Quantum mechanics manifests in experimental observations in several ways. Hauge et al. (1987) and Leavens et al. (1989) had pointed out that interference effects dominate a physical quantity called injectance. We show that, very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Urbashi Satpathi , P. Singha Deo

Under certain assumptions it is shown that the decay of level 2 of a three-level system onto level 1 is slowed down because of the further decay of level 1 onto level 0. It is argued that this phenomenon may be interpreted as a consequence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael B. Mensky

After giving a panoramic view of the " text-book " interpretation of the new quantum mechanics, as a sequel to the old quantum theory, the conceptual basis of quantum theory since the Copenhagen Interpretation is reviewed in the context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 A. N. Mitra

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

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

The quantum Zeno effect is described in geometric terms. The quantum Zeno time (inverse standard deviation of the Hamiltonian) and the generator of the quantum Zeno dynamics are both given a geometric interpretation.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Paolo Facchi , Saverio Pascazio

In this work a simple classical analog of the quantum Zeno effect is suggested. As it is well known, in the quantum mechanics, in the limit of the infinite series of alternative short dynamical evolution and measurement, an unstable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-26 Vladan Pankovic

When overlapping in an optical medium with nonlinear susceptibility, light waves can interact with each other, changing their phases, wavelengths, shapes, and so on. Such nonlinear effects, discovered over a half century ago, have given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Jia-Yang Chen , Yong Meng Sua , Zi-Tong Zhao , Mo Li , Yu-Ping Huang

Within quantum information, many methods have been proposed to avoid or correct the deleterious effects of the environment on a system of interest. In this work, expanding on our earlier paper [G. A. Paz-Silva et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Jason M. Dominy , Gerardo A. Paz-Silva , A. T. Rezakhani , D. A. Lidar

If very frequent periodic measurements ascertain whether a quantum system is still in its initial state, its evolution is hindered. This peculiar phenomenon is called quantum Zeno effect. We investigate the large-time limit of the survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Paolo Facchi , Marilena Ligabò

The basis of the so-called Zenon effect in Quantum Mechanics, is the limiting behavior of the unitary solution of Schroedinger's equation, under repeated measurments. We examine the limit of a sequence of operators complosed by a usual…

General Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Nikos Bagis

A generalized quantum theoretical framework, not restricted to the validity domain of standard quantum physics, is used to model the dynamics of the bistable perception of ambiguous visual stimuli. The central idea is to treat the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Atmanspacher , Th. Filk , H. Romer

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

We study the dynamics of the populations of a model molecule endowed with two sets of rotational levels of different parity, whose ground levels are energy degenerate and coupled by a constant interaction. The relaxation rate from one set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 D. Bruno , P. Facchi , S. Longo , P. Minelli , S. Pascazio , A. Scardicchio

Repeated observations inhibit the coherent evolution of quantum states through the quantum Zeno effect. In multi-qubit systems this effect provides new opportunities to control complex quantum states. Here, we experimentally demonstrate…

It will be shown in this article that an ontological approach for some problems related to the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics could emerge from a re-evaluation of the main paradox of early Greek thought: the paradox of Being and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 K. Verelst , B. Coecke

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is the striking prediction that the decay of any unstable quantum state can be inhibited by sufficiently frequent observations (measurements). The consensus opinion has upheld the QZE as a general feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 A. G. Kofman , G. Kurizki

Rapid experimental progress has recently allowed the use of light to prepare macroscopic mechanical objects into nearly pure quantum states. This research field of quantum optomechanics opens new doors toward testing quantum mechanics, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yanbei Chen

In this paper we study the possibility of modifying the dynamics of both quantum correlations, such as entanglement and discord, and classical correlations of an open bi-partite system by means of the quantum Zeno effect. We consider two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Francica , F. Plastina , S. Maniscalco