Quantum Zeno effect generalized Article Swipe
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Tim Möbus
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Michael M. Wolf
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· 2019
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090912
· OA: W2914668642
YOU?
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· 2019
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090912
· OA: W2914668642
The quantum Zeno effect, in its original form, uses frequent projective measurements to freeze the evolution of a quantum system that is initially governed by a fixed Hamiltonian. We generalize this effect simultaneously in three directions by allowing open system dynamics, time-dependent evolution equations, and general quantum operations in place of projective measurements. More precisely, we study Markovian master equations with bounded generators whose time dependence is Lipschitz continuous. Under a spectral gap condition on the quantum operation, we show how frequent measurements again freeze the evolution outside an invariant subspace. Inside this space, the evolution is described by a modified master equation.
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