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The evolution of a quantum system subjected to infinitely many measurements in a finite time interval is confined in a proper subspace of the Hilbert space. This phenomenon is called "quantum Zeno effect": a particle under intensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Paolo Facchi , Sandro Graffi , Marilena Ligabò

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) predicts a slow-down of the time development of a system under rapidly repeated ideal measurements, and experimentally this was tested for an ensemble of atoms using short laser pulses for non-selective state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Almut Beige , Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

This paper provides a general method for defining a generalized quantum observable (or POVM) that supplies properly normalized conditional probabilities for the time of occurrence (i.e., of detection). This method treats the time of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Thomas Pashby

The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) reveals that frequent measurements can suppress quantum evolution, but the detailed dynamics of the system under finite-duration measurements in experiments remain insufficiently explored. Here, we employ an…

Measurements in quantum mechanics can not only effectively freeze the state of the quantum system (the quantum Zeno effect) but also accelerate the time evolution of the system (the quantum anti-Zeno effect). In studies of the quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Muhammad Junaid Aftab , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

What is the right statistics for the measurements of arrival times of a quantum particle? Although this question is very old, it is still open. Usual experiments are performed in far-field regime and this question becomes unimportant, as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Nicola Vona , Günter Hinrichs , Detlef Dürr

According to the quantum Zeno effect, the frequent observations of a system can dramatically slow down its dynamical evolution. We show that the Zeno dynamics is the result of projective measurements among quantum states which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 Augusto Smerzi

The quantum Zeno effect is the suppression of Hamiltonian evolution by repeated observation, resulting in the pinning of the state to an eigenstate of the measurement observable. Using measurement only, control of the state can be achieved…

The evolution of a quantum system undergoing very frequent measurements takes place in a proper subspace of the total Hilbert space (quantum Zeno effect). When the measuring apparatus is included in the quantum description, the Zeno effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Facchi

This paper presents a simple model for repeated measurement of a quantum system: the evolution of a free particle, simulated by discretising the particle's position. This model is easily simulated by computer and provides a useful arena to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 David Wallace

We investigate the statistics of the first detected passage time of a quantum walk. The postulates of quantum theory, in particular the collapse of the wave function upon measurement, reveal an intimate connection between the wave function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-21 H. Friedman , D. A. Kessler , E. Barkai

We study the influence of a detector on the decay law of a quantum state whose "undisturbed" survival probability is purely exponential. In particular, we consider a detector with a finite energy band of detection, i.e. it interacts only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

A model for quantum Zeno effect based upon an effective Schr\"odinger equation originated by the path-integral approach is developed and applied to a two-level system simultaneously stimulated by a resonant perturbation. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla , Ubaldo Tambini

The influence of continuous measurements of energy with a finite accuracy is studied in various quantum systems through a restriction of the Feynman path-integrals around the measurement result. The method, which is equivalent to consider…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ubaldo Tambini , Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla

We compare the proposals that have appeared in the literature to describe a measurement of the time of arrival of a quantum particle at a detector. We show that there are multiple regimes where different proposals give inequivalent,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Simone Roncallo , Krzysztof Sacha , Lorenzo Maccone

Using the orthodox Weyl -- Wigner -- Stratonovich -- Cohen (WWSC) quantization rule we construct a time -- of -- arrival operator for a free particle on the circle. It is shown that this operator is self -- adjoint but the careful analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 M. Przanowski , M. Skulimowski , J. Tosiek

We consider a quantum system dynamics caused by successive selective and non-selective measurements of the probe coupled to the system. For the finite measurement rate $\tau^{-1}$ and the system-probe interaction strength $\gamma$ we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 I. A. Luchnikov , S. N. Filippov

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

Quantum measurements are crucial to observe the properties of a quantum system, which however unavoidably perturb its state and dynamics in an irreversible way. Here we study the dynamics of a quantum system while being subject to a…

We investigate a tight binding quantum walk on a graph. Repeated stroboscopic measurements of the position of the particle yield a measured "trajectory", and a combination of classical and quantum mechanical properties for the walk are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Didi , E. Barkai