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Repeater-assisted Zeno effect in classical stochastic processes

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2009-12-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

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 both check and recover the state's information continuously, the state's decay rate will be significantly suppressed, then a classical Zeno effect might occur. Such a physical process is purely classical and without any interferences of living beings, therefore, it manifests that the Zeno effect is no longer a patent of quantum mechanics, but does exist in classical stochastic processes.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5388,
  title  = {Repeater-assisted Zeno effect in classical stochastic processes},
  author = {Shi-Jian Gu and Li-Gang Wang and Zhi-Guo Wang and Hai-Qing Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5388},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures

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