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In the context of quantum state engineering we analyze the effect of observation on nonlinear optical $n$-photon Fock state generation. We show that it is possible to truncate the vacuum component from an arbitrary photon number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tae-Gon Noh

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

In this work we explore the potential of implementing an optical quantum optimizer using non-linear optics, specifically using sum-frequency generation and/or two photon absorption. This proposal uses Zeno effects to enforce independence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Mohammad-Ali Miri , Uchenna Chukwu , Nicholas Chancellor

The quantum Zeno effect, in its original form, uses frequent projective measurements to freeze the evolution of a quantum system that is initially governed by a fixed Hamiltonian. We generalize this effect simultaneously in three directions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Tim Möbus , Michael M. Wolf

The effect of the anti-rotating terms on the short-time evolution and the quantum Zeno (QZE) and anti-Zeno (AQZE) effects is studied for a two-level system coupled to a bosonic environment. A unitary transformation and perturbation theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Zheng , S. Y. Zhu

Both non-Hermitian systems and the behaviour of emitters coupled to structured baths have been studied intensely in recent years. Here we study the interplay of these paradigmatic settings. In a series of examples, we show that a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Zongping Gong , Miguel Bello , Daniel Malz , Flore K. Kunst

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics. It is described by a simple Laughlin wavefunction and has been thoroughly studied both theoretically and experimentally. In lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-07 Anne E. B. Nielsen , German Sierra , J. Ignacio Cirac

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

Fractional charge and statistics are hallmarks of low-dimensional interacting systems such as fractional quantum Hall (QH) systems. Integer QH systems are regarded noninteracting, yet they can have fractional charge excitations when they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 June-Young M. Lee , Cheolhee Han , H. -S. Sim

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect arises from strong electron correlations in a quantising magnetic field, and features exotic emergent phenomena such as electron fractionalisation. Using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Currie , Evgeny Kozik

We theoretically propose a scheme for verification of quantum Zeno effect (QZE) to suppress a decay process with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Nuclear spins are affected by low frequency noise, and so one can naturally observe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hirotaka Tanaka

Engineering quantum bath networks through non-Hermitian subsystem Hamiltonians has recently emerged as a promising strategy for qubit cooling, state stabilization, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, scaling these systems while…

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a distinctive phenomenon in non-Hermitian systems, which manifests as the anomalous localization of bulk states at the boundary. To understand the physical origin of the non-Hermitian skin effect, a bulk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Tuo Wan , Kai Zhang , Junkai Li , Zhesen Yang , Zhaoju Yang

We propose a strategy to demonstrate the transition from the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) to the anti-Zeno effect (AZE) by modulating the central frequency of the cavity mode. Our results are obtained without using the rotating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Xiufeng Cao , Qing Ai , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

A complete suppression of the exponential decay in a qubit (interacting with a squeezed vacuum reservoir) can be achieved by frequent measurements of adequately chosen observables. The observables and initial states (Zeno subspace) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Md. Manirul Ali , Po-Wen Chen , Alec Maassen van den Brink , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects are studied in an asymmetric nonlinear optical coupler composed of a probe waveguide and a system waveguide. The system is a nonlinear waveguide operating under non-degenerate hyper-Raman process, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Moumita Das , Kishore Thapliyal , Biswajit Sen , Jan Perina , Anirban Pathak

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

While considering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians arising in the presence of dissipation, in most cases, the dissipation is taken to be frequency independent. However, this idealization may not always be applicable in experimental settings,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Sumit Kumar Jana , Ryo Hanai , Tan Van Vu , Hisao Hayakawa , Archak Purkayastha

We discuss the appearance of Zeno (QZE) or anti-Zeno (QAE) effect in an exponentially decaying system. We consider the quantum dynamics of a continuously monitored two level system interacting with a squeezed bath. We find that the behavior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. F. Mundarain , J. Stephany

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