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We show that multidimensional Zeno effect combined with non-holonomic control allows to efficiently protect quantum systems from decoherence by a method similar to classical coding. Contrary to the conventional approach, our method is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 E. Brion , G. Harel , N. Kebaili , V. M. Akulin , I. Dumer

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Perrin , T. Scoquart , A. I. Pavlov , N. V. Gnezdilov

In this paper, we show that it is possible to significantly boost the heat extraction ability of the ICO fridge by applying N identical thermalising channels in a superposition of N cyclic causal orders[2], and that this can be further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Hanlin Nie , Tianfeng Feng , Samuel Longden , Vlatko Vedral

According to quantum Zeno dynamics (QZD), the evolution of a quantum system can be restricted to a subspace of its Hilbert space by frequent measurements. A crucial question in QZD of a particle's position is: how short the time interval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Varqa Abyaneh , Parsa Ghorbani

We investigate whether and how the quantum Zeno effect, i.e., the inhibition of quantum evolution by frequent measurements, can be employed to isolate a quantum dot from its surrounding electron reservoir. In contrast to the often studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 N. Ahmadiniaz , M. Geller , J. König , P. Kratzer , A. Lorke , G. Schaller , R. Schützhold

Quantum thermalization occurs in a broad class of systems from elementary particles to complex materials. Out-of-equilibrium quantum systems have long been understood to either thermalize or retain memory of their initial states, but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Luheng Zhao , Prithvi Raj Datla , Weikun Tian , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Huanqian Loh

The fragility of quantum coherence fundamentally limits the scalability of quantum technologies, as unavoidable environmental interactions induce decoherence and rapidly degrade quantum properties. The Quantum Zeno Effect offers a powerful…

In open quantum systems, the quantum Zeno effect consists in frequent applications of a given quantum operation, e.g.~a measurement, used to restrict the time evolution (due e.g.~to decoherence) to states that are invariant under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Tim Möbus , Cambyse Rouzé

Quantum measurements profoundly influence system dynamics. They lead to complex nonequilibrium phenomena like the quantum Zeno effect, and they can be used for mitigating errors in quantum simulations. Such an ability is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Matteo M. Wauters , Edoardo Ballini , Alberto Biella , Philipp Hauke

We derive a bound on the efficiency of thermal engines that can be sharper than Carnot's limit. It is a function of statistical correlations between the engine internal state and Hamiltonian, can be saturated even in finite-time cycles, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Anna Gabetti , Fabrizio Dolcini , Davide Girolami

In the task of unitarily cooling a quantum system with access to a larger quantum system, known as the machine or reservoir, how does the structure of the machine impact an agent's ability to cool and the complexity of their cooling…

Preparation of low-energy quantum many-body states has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. Quantum cooling algorithms offer a promising alternative to other methods based, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Molpeceres , Sirui Lu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Barbara Kraus

Quantum Zeno effect is a significant tool in quantum manipulating and computing. We propose its observation in superconducting phase qubit with two experimentally feasible measurement schemes. The conventional measurement method is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue

The quantum Zeno effect arises due to frequent observation. That implies the existence of some experimenter and its interaction with the system. In this contribution, we examine what happens for a closed system if one considers a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Petros Wallden

In order to unitarily evolve a quantum system, an agent requires knowledge of time, a parameter which no physical clock can ever perfectly characterise. In this letter, we study how limitations on acquiring knowledge of time impact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Jake Xuereb , Florian Meier , Paul Erker , Mark T. Mitchison , Marcus Huber

Two-qubit logical gates are proposed on the basis of two atoms trapped in a cavity setup. Losses in the interaction by spontaneous transitions are efficiently suppressed by employing adiabatic transitions and the Zeno effect. Dynamical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiannis Pachos , Herbert Walther

Following the result by Skrzypczyk et al., arXiv:1009.0865, that certain self-contained quantum thermal machines can reach Carnot efficiency, we discuss the functioning of self-contained quantum thermal machines and show, in a very general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Sandu Popescu

Quantum thermodynamics is aimed at grasping thermodynamic laws as they apply to thermal machines operating in the deep quantum regime, a regime in which coherences and entanglement are expected to matter. Despite substantial progress,…

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 experimentally demonstrate a new dynamic fashion of quantum Zeno effect in nuclear magnetic resonance systems. The frequent measurements are implemented through quantum entanglement between the target qubit(s) and the measuring qubit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Wenqiang Zheng , D. Z. Xu , Xinhua Peng , Xianyi Zhou , Jiangfeng Du , C. P. Sun