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The fact that repeated projective measurements can slow down (the Zeno effect) or speed up (the anti-Zeno effect) quantum evolution is well-known. However, to date, studies of these effects focus on quantum systems that are weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Adam Zaman Chaudhry

A discussion of the quantum Zeno effect and paradox is given. The quantum Zeno paradox claims that a continuously observed system, prepared in a state which is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian operator, never decays. To recover the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kullock , N. F. Svaiter

Modeling an arbitrarily accelerating qubit as an open quantum system, we derive an exact solution for the pure-dephasing model ($\sigma_z$ coupling) under arbitrary qubit space-time trajectories, as well as general expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Asad Hussain , Hamza Ahmed

Finite-time quantum heat engines (QHEs) typically extract less work than their quasistatic counterparts because fast driving generates coherences and non-adiabatic transitions during the work strokes, a phenomenon commonly referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Selma Memić , Rafael Wagner , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We analyze the quantum Zeno dynamics that takes place when a field stored in a cavity undergoes frequent interactions with atoms. We show that repeated measurements or unitary operations performed on the atoms probing the field state…

We investigate the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects on pairwise entanglement dynamics of a collective of non-interacting qubits which have been initially prepared in a Werner state and are off-resonantly coupled to a common and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Alireza Nourmandipour , M. K. Tavassoly , M. A. Bolorizadeh

The Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) implies that a too frequent ($\omega_\phi \to \infty)$ observation of a quantum system would trap it in its initial state, even though it would be able to evolve to some other state if not observed. In our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Horacio M. Pastawski , Gonzalo Usaj

We point out that the quantum Zeno effect, i.e., inhibition of spontaneous decay by frequent measurements, is observable only in spectrally finite reservoirs, i.e., in cavities and waveguides, using a sequence of evolution-interrupting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Kofman , G. Kurizki

Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects on pure dephasing are studied using exactly solvable microscopic models. The crossover between these two opposite effects is investigated. The case of a single two-level system undergoing dephasing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Adam Zaman Chaudhry , Jiangbin Gong

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

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

If frequent measurements ascertain whether a quantum system is still in its initial state, transitions to other states are hindered and the quantum Zeno effect takes place. However, in its broader formulation, the quantum Zeno effect does…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

We study the Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) on a single qubit on IBM Quantum Experience devices under the effect of multiple measurements. We consider two possible cases: the Rabi evolution and the free decay. SPAM error mitigations have also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Andrea Alessandrini , Carola Ciaramelletti , Simone Paganelli

We develop an exact framework for quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno dynamics in a broad class of open systems, whose microscopic Hamiltonians are quadratic in bosonic or fermionic operators. We treat the environment through an exact stroboscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Jishad Kumar , Achilleas Lazarides , Tapio Ala-Nissila

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

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is the phenomenon where the unitary evolution of a quantum state is suppressed e.g. due to frequent measurements. Here, we investigate the use of the QZE in a class of communication complexity problems (CCPs).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Armin Tavakoli , Hammad Anwer , Alley Hameedi , Mohamed Bourennane

Surface diffusion of interacting adsorbates is here analyzed within the context of two fundamental phenomena of quantum dynamics, namely the quantum Zeno effect and the anti-Zeno effect. The physical implications of these effects are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-24 H. C. Pennate-Rodriguez , R. Martinez-Casado , G. Rojas-Lorenzo , A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

In this paper we investigate the occurrence of the Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for quantum Brownian motion. We single out the parameters of both the system and the reservoir governing the crossover between Zeno and anti-Zeno dynamics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sabrina Maniscalco , Jyrki Piilo , Kalle-Antti Suominen

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

The Zeno effect occurs in quantum systems when a very strong measurement is applied, which can alter the dynamics in non-trivial ways. Despite being dissipative, the dynamics stay coherent within any degenerate subspaces of the measurement.…