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The quantum Zeno effect (QZE) is the striking prediction that the decay of any unstable quantum state can be inhibited by sufficiently frequent observations (measurements). The consensus opinion has upheld the QZE as a general feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 A. G. Kofman , G. Kurizki

Under certain assumptions it is shown that the decay of level 2 of a three-level system onto level 1 is slowed down because of the further decay of level 1 onto level 0. It is argued that this phenomenon may be interpreted as a consequence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael B. Mensky

Prevention of a quantum system's time evolution by repetitive, frequent measurements of the system's state has been called the quantum Zeno effect (or paradox). Here we investigate theoretically and numerically the effect of repeated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 B. Kaulakys , V. Gontis

In this paper we investigate the occurrence of the Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for quantum Brownian motion. We single out the parameters of both the system and the reservoir governing the crossover between Zeno and anti-Zeno dynamics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sabrina Maniscalco , Jyrki Piilo , Kalle-Antti Suominen

We report the first observation of the Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno effects in an unstable system. Cold sodium atoms are trapped in a far-detuned standing wave of light that is accelerated for a controlled duration. For a large acceleration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Fischer , B. Gutierrez-Medina , M. G. Raizen

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

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

We examine the quantum Zeno effect on the dynamics of quantum discord in two initially entangled qubits which are subjected to frequent measurements via decoherent coupling with independent reservoirs. The links between characteristic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 A. Thilagam

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

The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing frequent "measurements", leading to the so-called quantum Zeno effect, is examined on the basis of a neutron-spin experiment recently proposed for its demonstration. When the spatial degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Machida , Hiromichi Nakazato , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch , Sixia Yu

The quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects describe how frequent measurements can either suppress or accelerate quantum dynamics. While extensively studied in various platforms, their manifestation in dark-state dynamics remains largely…

A series of frequent measurements on a quantum system (Zeno-like measurements) is shown to result in the ``purification'' of another quantum system in interaction with the former. Even though the measurements are performed on the former…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hiromichi Nakazato , Tomoko Takazawa , Kazuya Yuasa

Simply speaking quantum Zeno effect for an unstable quantum system represents total decay probability decrease by frequent decay detection. Analogously simply speaking quantum anti-Zeno effect for an unstable quantum system represents total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Vladan Pankovic

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

After reviewing the description of an unstable state in the framework of nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics (QM) and relativistic Quantum Field Theory (QFT), we consider the effect of pulsed, ideal measurements repeated at equal time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of the quantum Zeno subspaces which are the eigenspaces of the interaction Hamiltonian, belonging to different eigenvalues. Using the perturbation theory and the adiabatic approximation, we get a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yi-Xin Chen , Zhuowen Fang

We analyzed the effect of frequent measurements on the quantum systems that are chaotic in the classical limit. It is shown that the kicked rotator, a well-known example of quantum chaos, is too special to be used as a testing ground for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sang Wook Kim , Young-Tak Chough , Kyungwon An

A relation is found between pulsed measurements of the excited state probability of a two-level atom illuminated by a driving laser, and a continuous measurement by a second laser coupling the excited state to a third state which decays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. G. Muga , J. Echanobe , A. del Campo , I. Lizuain

A "continuous measurement" Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) in the context of trapped ions is predicted. We describe the physical system and study its exact time evolution showing the appearance of Zeno Phenomena. New indicators for the occurrence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Militello , A. Messina , A. Napoli

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