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We show how the quantum Zeno effect can be exploited to control quantum many-body dynamics for quantum information and computation purposes. In particular, we consider a one dimensional array of three level systems interacting via a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Alex Monras , Oriol Romero-Isart

The phenomenon of quantum interrogation allows one to optically detect the presence of an absorbing object, without the measuring light interacting with it. In an application of the quantum Zeno effect, the object inhibits the otherwise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. G. Kwiat , A. G. White , J. R. Mitchell , O. Nairz , G. Weihs , H. Weinfurter , A. Zeilinger

We demonstrate that repeated measurements in disordered systems can induce quantum anti-Zeno effect under certain condition to enhance quantum transport. The enhancement of energy transfer is really exhibited with a simple model under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Keisuke Fujii , Katsuji Yamamoto

We study the measurement process by treating classical detectors entirely quantum mechanically. As a generic model we use a point-contact detector coupled to an electron in a quantum dot and tunneling into the continuum. Transition to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gurvitz

The quantum Zeno effect refers to slowing down of the decay of a quantum system that is affected by frequent measurements. Nowadays, the significance of this paradigm is extended far beyond quantum systems, where it was introduced, finding…

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…

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

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

We modify the theory of the Quantum Zeno Effect to make it consistent with the postulates of quantum mechanics. This modification allows one, throughout a sequence of observations of an excited system, to address the nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 P. W. Bryant

The quantum Zeno effect is a striking feature of quantum mechanics with foundational implications and practical applications in quantum control, error suppression, and error correction. In recent years, the effect has branched off into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Sacha Greenfield , Archana Kamal , Justin Dressel , Eli Levenson-Falk

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…

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

An error prevention procedure based on two-particle encoding is proposed for protecting an arbitrary unknown quantum state from dissipation, such as phase damping and amplitude damping. The schemes, which exhibits manifestation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lu-Ming Duan , Guang-Can Guo

The fact that repeated projective measurements can slow down (the Zeno effect) or speed up (the anti-Zeno effect) quantum evolution is well-known. However, to date, studies of these effects focus on quantum systems that are weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Adam Zaman Chaudhry

A quantum system being observed evolves more slowly. This `'quantum Zeno effect'' is reviewed with respect to a previous attempt of demonstration, and to subsequent criticism of the significance of the findings. A recent experiment on an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Chr. Wunderlich , Chr. Balzer , P. E. Toschek

The interaction of an atomic two-level system and a squeezed vacuum leads to interesting novel effects in atomic dynamics, including line narrowing in resonance fluorescence and absorption spectra, and a suppressed (enhanced) decay of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Lütkenhaus , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

Detailed schemes are investigated for experimental verification of Quantum Zeno effect with a superconducting qubit. A superconducting qubit is affected by a dephasing noise whose spectrum is 1/f, and so the decay process of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Shiro Saito , Kosuke Kakuyanagi , Kouichi Semba

The quantum Zeno effect consists in the hindrance of the evolution of a quantum system that is very frequently monitored and found to be in its initial state at every single measurement. On the basis of the correct formula for the survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hiromichi Nakazato , Mikio Namiki , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch

We use a non-Markovian approach to study the decoherence dynamics of a qubit in either a low- or high-frequency bath modeling the qubit environment. This approach is based on a unitary transformation and does not require the rotating-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xiufeng Cao , J. Q. You , H. Zheng , Franco Nori

In this paper, we look into what happens to a quantum system under repeated measurements if system evolution is removed before each measurement is performed. Beginning with investigating a single two-level system coupled to two independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Irfan Javed , Mohsin Raza