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Projective measurements are an essential element of quantum mechanics. In most cases, they cause an irreversible change of the quantum system on which they act. However, measurements can also be used to stabilize quantum states from decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-18 Yasushi Kondo , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Kei Matsushima , Jefferson G. Filgueiras

Adiabatic transport provides a powerful way to manipulate quantum states. By preparing a system in a readily initialised state and then slowly changing its Hamiltonian, one may achieve quantum states that would otherwise be inaccessible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 P. J. D. Crowley , T. Duric , W. Vinci , P. A. Warburton , A. G. Green

We propose a new approach to the implementation of quantum gates in which decoherence during the gate operations is strongly reduced. This is achieved by making use of an environment induced quantum Zeno effect that confines the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Beige , D. Braun , B. Tregenna , P. L. Knight

We study the quantum Zeno effect in quantum statistical mechanics within the operator algebraic framework. We formulate a condition for the appearance of the effect in W*-dynamical systems, in terms of the short-time behaviour of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas U. Schmidt

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 principal obstacle to quantum information processing with many qubits is decoherence. One source of decoherence is spontaneous emission which causes loss of energy and information. Inability to control system parameters with high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Almut Beige

Determining the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is essential for understanding its dynamics and validating its behavior. Hamiltonian learning provides a data-driven approach to reconstruct the generator of the dynamics from measurements on…

A master equation approach to the study of environmental effects in the adiabatic population transfer in three-state systems is presented. A systematic comparison with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach [N. V. Vitanov and S. Stenholm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Scala , B. Militello , A. Messina , N. V. Vitanov

Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage, a very efficient technique for manipulating a quantum system based on the adiabatic theorem, is analyzed in the case where the manipulated physical system is interacting with a spin bath. Exploitation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Benedetto Militello , Anna Napoli

We investigate the quantum Zeno effect as a framework for designing and analyzing quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation. We show that frequent projective measurements of an ancilla qubit register can be used to simulate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Kasra Rajabzadeh Dizaji , Ariq Haqq , Alicia B. Magann , Christian Arenz

We study the implementation of quantum engines and quantum heat pumps where the quantum adiabatic transformations are replaced by quantum Zeno strokes. During these strokes, frequent measurements are selectively performed on the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Giovanni Barontini

Quantum optimization algorithms promise advantages for difficult problems but are costly to simulate and analyze on classical machines. Recently, constrained quantum optimization has been investigated through the lens of Quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

The Zeno and anti-Zeno effects are features of measurement-driven quantum evolution where frequent measurement inhibits or accelerates the decay of a quantum state. Either type of evolution can emerge depending on the system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 P. M. Harrington , J. T. Monroe , K. W. Murch

In the quantum Zeno effect, quantum measurements can block the coherent oscillation of a two level system by freezing its state to one of the measurement eigenstates. The effect is conventionally controlled by the measurement frequency.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Kyrylo Snizhko , Parveen Kumar , Alessandro Romito

In few-qubit systems, the quantum Zeno effect arises when measurement occurs sufficiently frequently that the spins are unable to relax between measurements. This can compete with Hamiltonian terms, resulting in interesting relaxation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-05 Umar Javed , Riccardo J. Valencia-Tortora , Jamir Marino , Vadim Oganesyan , Michael Kolodrubetz

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

We present a framework for quantum computation, similar to Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC), that is based on the quantum Zeno effect. By performing randomised dephasing operations at intervals determined by a Poisson process, we are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

A computation in adiabatic quantum computing is implemented by traversing a path of nondegenerate eigenstates of a continuous family of Hamiltonians. We introduce a method that traverses a discretized form of the path: At each step we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma

We study the coexistence of the quantum Zeno effect and non-Markovianity for a system decaying in a structured bosonic environment and subject to a control field. The interaction with the environment induces decay from the excited to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Antti Karlsson , Francesco Francica , Jyrki Piilo , Francesco Plastina

At present, several models for quantum computation have been proposed. Adiabatic quantum computation scheme particularly offers this possibility and is based on a slow enough time evolution of the system, where no transitions take place. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. J. Salas Peralta