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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

Quantum Error Mitigation (QEM) presents a promising near-term approach to reduce error when estimating expectation values in quantum computing. Here, we introduce QEM techniques tailored for quantum annealing, using Zero-Noise Extrapolation…

Quantum sensing is a fundamental building block of modern technology that employs quantum resources and creates new opportunities for precision measurements. However, previous methods usually have a common assumption that detection noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Min Jiang , Yushu Qin , Yuanhong Wang , Ying Huang , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

We present a proposal to realize the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum Zeno-like effect (QZLE) in a proximal $\mathrm{^{13}C}$ nuclear spin by controlling a proximal electron spin of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center. The measurement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Jing Qiu , Yang-Yang Wang , Zhang-Qi Yin , Mei Zhang , Qing Ai , Fu-Guo Deng

In this work we study an ultrastrong coupled qubit-cavity system subjected to slow repeated measurements. We demonstrate that even under a few imperfect measurements it is possible to detect transitions of the qubit from its free ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 C. Sabín , J. León , J. J. García-Ripoll

It is well known that the quantum Zeno effect can protect specific quantum states from decoherence by using projective measurements. Here we combine the theory of weak measurements with stabilizer quantum error correction and detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 G. A. Paz-Silva , A. T. Rezakhani , J. M. Dominy , D. A. Lidar

The quantum Zeno effect is usually thought to require infinitely frequent and perfect projective measurements to freeze the dynamics of quantum states. We show that perfect freezing of quantum states can also be achieved by more realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 David Layden , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

Traditional approach on quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum anti-Zeno effect (QAZE) in open quantum systems (implicitly) assumes the bath (environment) state returning to its original state after each instantaneous projective measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Zixian Zhou , Zhiguo Lü , Hang Zheng , Hsi-Sheng Goan

It is well known that by repeatedly measuring a quantum system it is possible to completely freeze its dynamics into a well defined state, a signature of the quantum Zeno effect. Here we show that for a many-body system evolving under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Alberto Biella , Marco Schiró

Spin squeezing is a powerful resource for quantum metrology, and recent hardware platforms based on interacting qubits provide multiple possible architectures to generate and reverse squeezing during a sensing protocol. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Nickholas Gutierrez , Rodrigo Araiza Bravo , Susanne Yelin

Pushing the boundaries of measurement precision is central for sensing and metrology, pursued by nonclassical resources such as squeezing, and non-Hermitian degeneracies with distinct spectral response. Their convergence, however, remains…

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

The time evolution of some quantum states can be slowed down or even stopped under frequent measurements. This is the usual quantum Zeno effect. Here, we report an operator quantum Zeno effect, in which the evolution of some physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Shu-Chao Wang , Ying Li , Xiang-Bin Wang , Leong Chuan Kwek

The Zeno effect, in which repeated observation freezes the dynamics of a quantum system, stands as an iconic oddity of quantum mechanics. When a measurement is unable to distinguish between states in a subspace, the dynamics within that…

Sensing of parameters is an important aspect in all disciplines, with applications ranging from fundamental science to medicine. Quantum sensing and metrology is an emerging field that lies at the cross-roads of quantum physics, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Keshav Das Agarwal , Sayan Mondal , Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

It is well known that repeated projective measurements can either speed up (the Zeno effect) or slow down (the anti-Zeno effect) quantum evolution. Until now, however, studies of these effects for a two-level system interacting strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ghazi Khan , Hudaiba Soomro , Muhammad Usman Baig , Irfan Javed , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

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

Compressive sensing is a signal processing technique that enables the reconstruction of sparse signals from a limited number of measurements, leveraging the signal's inherent sparsity to facilitate efficient recovery. Recent works on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Naveed Naimipour , Collin Frink , Harry Shaw , Haleh Safavi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

In this work we consider quantum dynamical interaction of single photon with beam splitter after which well-known superposition between reflected and transmitted photon appears. Later reflected photon is absorbed by one and transmitted…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Vladan Pankovic