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Resonant tunneling through identical potential barriers is a textbook problem in quantum mechanics. Its solution yields total transparency (100% tunneling) at discrete energies. This dramatic phenomenon results from coherent interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Daniel Rohrlich , Oren Zarchin , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

The linear transport properties of a model molecular transistor with electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions were investigated analytically and numerically. The model takes into account phonon modulation of the electronic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel , H. Ness

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

The quantum Zeno effect reveals that the continuous observation of a quantum system can result in significant alterations to its evolution. Here, we present a method for establishing polarization entanglement between two initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ian C. Nodurft , Harry C. Shaw , Ryan T. Glasser , Brian T. Kirby , Thomas A. Searles

Environmental noise usually hinders the efficiency of charge transport through coherent quantum systems; an exception is dephasing-assisted transport (DAT). We show that linear triple quantum dots in a transport configuration and subjected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 L. D. Contreras-Pulido , M. Bruderer , S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

A quantum Zeno dynamics can be obtained by means of frequent measurements, frequent unitary kicks or a strong continuous coupling and yields a partition of the total Hilbert space into quantum Zeno subspaces, among which any transition is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Paolo Facchi , Giuseppe Marmo , Saverio Pascazio

We introduce and explore a one-dimensional "hybrid" quantum circuit model consisting of both unitary gates and projective measurements. While the unitary gates are drawn from a random distribution and act uniformly in the circuit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The quantum Zeno effect, which inhibits quantum state evolution via repeated weak measurements, significantly enhances the efficiency of interaction-free measurement (IFM). This fundamental mechanism facilitates high-efficiency…

Quantum magnetic field sensing is an important technology for material science and biology. Although experimental imperfections affect the sensitivity, repetitions of the measurements decrease the estimation uncertainty by a square root of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Alisa Shimada , Hideaki Hakoshima , Suguru Endo , Kaoru Yamamoto , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

The evolution of a quantum system under observation becomes retarded or even impeded. We review this ``quantum Zeno effect'' in the light of the criticism that has been raised upon a previous attempt to demonstrate it, of later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter E. Toschek , Christof Wunderlich

The behavior displayed by a quantum system when it is perturbed by a series of von Neumann measurements along time is analyzed. Because of the similarity between this general process with giving a deck of playing cards a shuffle, here it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 A. S. Sanz , C. Sanz-Sanz , T. Gonzalez-Lezana , O. Roncero , S. Miret-Artes

We analyze the experimental observations reported by Fischer et. al. [in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 040402 (2001)] by considering a system of coupled unstable bound quantum states A and B. The state B is coupled to a set of continuum states C. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-13 Kavan Modi , Anil Shaji

In the present paper we investigate the influence of measurements on the quantum dynamics of degenerate Bose atoms gases in a symmetric double-well. We show that continuous measurements enhance asymmetry on the density distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 WeiDong Li , Jie Liu

We study the measurement-induced enhancement of the spontaneous decay (called quantum anti-Zeno effect) for a two-level subsystem, where measurements are treated as couplings between the excited state and an auxiliary state rather than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Qing Ai , Dazhi Xu , Su Yi , A. G. Kofman , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

In open quantum systems, the precision of metrology inevitably suffers from the noise. {In Markovian open quantum dynamics, the precision can not be improved by using entangled probes although the measurement time is effectively shortened.}…

If unitary evolution of a quantum system is interrupted by a sequence of measurements we call the dynamics as quantum Zeno dynamics. We show that under quantum Zeno dynamics not only the transition probability (leading to quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arun Kumar Pati , Suresh V. Lawande

Quantum Zeno dynamics (QZD), which restricts the system's evolution to a protected subspace, provides a promising approach for protecting quantum information from noise. Here, we explore a practical approach to harnessing QZD for robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ran Liu , Xiaodong Yang , Xiang Lv , Xinyue Long , Hongfeng Liu , Dawei Lu , Ying Dong , Jun Li

Quantum transport in mesoscopic conductors is essentially governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. One of the major open questions of quantum mechanics is what happens if non-commuting observables are measured simultaneously. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Adam Bednorz , Wolfgang Belzig

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…

A continuous projective measurement of a quantum system often leads to a suppression of the dynamics, known as the Zeno effect. Alternatively, generalized nonprojective, so-called "weak" measurements can be carried out. Such a measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Adam Bednorz , Wolfgang Belzig , Abraham Nitzan