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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 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

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

Quantum mechanics predicts that the decay rate of unstable systems could be effectively modified by the process of the measurement of the survival probability. Depending on the intrinsic properties of the unstable system and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

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…

It is well known that repeated projective measurements can either speed up (the Zeno effect) or slow down (the anti-Zeno effect) quantum evolution. Until now, however, studies of these effects for a two-level system interacting strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ghazi Khan , Hudaiba Soomro , Muhammad Usman Baig , Irfan Javed , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

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 distorsion of a spontaneous downconvertion process caused by an auxiliary mode coupled to the idler wave is analyzed. In general, a strong coupling with the auxiliary mode tends to hinder the downconversion in the nonlinear medium. On…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Rehacek , J. Perina , P. Facchi , S. Pascazio , L. Mista

In this paper, we systematically study the spontaneous decay phenomenon of a two-level system under the influences of both its environment and continuous measurements. In order to clarify some well-established conclusions about the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Qing Ai , Yong Li , Hang Zheng , C. P. Sun

If very frequent periodic measurements ascertain whether a quantum system is still in its initial state, its evolution is hindered. This peculiar phenomenon is called quantum Zeno effect. We investigate the large-time limit of the survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Paolo Facchi , Marilena Ligabò

By repeatedly measuring a quantum system, the evolution of the system can be slowed down (the quantum Zeno effect) or sped up (quantum anti-Zeno effect). We study these effects for a single two-level system coupled to a collection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Bilal Khalid , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

We experimentally study quantum Zeno effects in a parity-time (PT) symmetric cold atom gas periodically coupled to a reservoir. Based on the state-of-the-art control of inter-site couplings of atoms in a momentum lattice, we implement a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-26 Tao Chen , Wei Gou , Dizhou Xie , Teng Xiao , Wei Yi , Jun Jing , Bo Yan

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 inhibition of the decay of a quantum system by frequent measurements is known as quantum Zeno effect. Beyond the limit of projective measurements, the interplay between the unitary dynamics of the system and the coupling to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Andreas Prinz-Zwick , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Talkner

As a classical state, for instance a digitized image, is transferred through a classical channel, it decays inevitably with the distance due to the surroundings' interferences. However, if there are enough number of repeaters, which can…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-12-07 Shi-Jian Gu , Li-Gang Wang , Zhi-Guo Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

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

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 evolution of a quantum system undergoing very frequent measurements takes place in a subspace of the total Hilbert space (quantum Zeno effect). The dynamical properties of this evolution are investigated and several examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Facchi , V. Gorini , G. Marmo , S. Pascazio , E. C. G. Sudarshan

The so-called quantum Zeno effect is essentially a consequence of the projection postulate for ideal measurements. To test the effect Itano et al. have performed an experiment on an ensemble of atoms where rapidly repeated level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Almut Beige , Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Dirk G. Sondermann

In studies of the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects, it is usual to consider rapid projective measurements with equal time intervals being performed on the system to check whether or not the system is in the initial state. These projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Mehwish Majeed , Adam Zaman Chaudhry