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We find that when the environment of a two-level system has an energy spectrum with a lower bound but without an upper one, the survival probability of the spontaneous emission of the two-level system scales with the spatial dimension $D$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Hiroki Nakabayashi , Hayato Kinkawa , Takano Taira , Naomichi Hatano

Beam and trap methods find incompatible results for the lifetime of the neutron: the former delivers a value which is about $8.7\pm2.1$ s longer than the latter. Very recently (1906.10024) it has been proposed that the inverse Zeno effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Francesco Giacosa

We show that a short-time regime, in which a deviation from the exponential decay law occurs, exists also in the framework of a superrenormalizable relativistic quantum field theory. This, in turn, implies the possibility of a quantum Zeno…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-13 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

Modeling an arbitrarily accelerating qubit as an open quantum system, we derive an exact solution for the pure-dephasing model ($\sigma_z$ coupling) under arbitrary qubit space-time trajectories, as well as general expressions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Asad Hussain , Hamza Ahmed

Generalizing a recent analysis, we model the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects with a quickly switched, ideal LC/LR circuit, in the limiting case of it alternating very many times between its short LC and even shorter LR regime. If the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 T. Hubsch , V. Pankovic

We study the temporal evolution of a three-level system (such as an atom or a molecule), initially prepared in an excited state, bathed in a laser field tuned at the transition frequency of the other level. The features of the spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

It is proposed that for those sleep disorders of psychological origin which can be considered to be a Quantum Zeno Effect-type phenomenon of persistence in the waking state due to the inhibition of the transition to the Deep Sleep state,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Rajat Kumar Pradhan

It is accepted that among the ways through which a quantum phenomenon decoheres and becomes a classical one is what is termed in the literature the Zeno effect. This effect, named after the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (born about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bar

The quantum Zeno evolution of a quantum system takes place in a proper subspace of the total Hilbert space. The physical and mathematical features of the "Zeno subspaces" depend on the measuring apparatus: when this is included in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

A discussion of the quantum Zeno effect and paradox is given. The quantum Zeno paradox claims that a continuously observed system, prepared in a state which is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian operator, never decays. To recover the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kullock , N. F. Svaiter

We investigate the quantum Zeno effect in the case of electron tunneling out of a quantum dot in the presence of continuous monitoring by a detector. It is shown that the Schr\"odinger equation for the whole system can be reduced to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Brahim Elattari , S. A. Gurvitz

The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing frequent measurements (quantum Zeno effect) is investigated. Using asymptotic analysis, the system is found to evolve unitarily in a proper subspace of the total Hilbert space. For spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio , A. Scardicchio , L. S. Schulman

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

In this work we show that by frequent measurements of adequately chosen observables, a complete suppression of the decay in an exponentially decaying two level system interacting with a squeezed bath is obtained. The observables for which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Mundarain , M. Orszag , J. Stephany

We analyze the influence of the finite duration of the measurement on the quantum Zeno effect, using a simple model of the measurement. It is shown that the influence of the finite duration of the measurement is uninportant when this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julius Ruseckas

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…

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 quantum "Zeno" time of the 2P-1S transition of the hydrogen atom is computed and found to be approximately 3.59 10^{-15}s (the lifetime is approximately 1.595 10^{-9}s). The temporal behavior of this system is analyzed in a purely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

We investigate two techniques for controlling decoherence, focusing on the crucial role played by the environmental spectrum. We show how environments with different spectra lead to very different dynamical behaviours. Our study clearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Janika Paavola , Sabrina Maniscalco

The Zeno effect occurs in quantum systems when a very strong measurement is applied, which can alter the dynamics in non-trivial ways. Despite being dissipative, the dynamics stay coherent within any degenerate subspaces of the measurement.…