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View SchemaGeometry of the Hilbert space and the Quantum Zeno Effect
| Authors | A. K. Pati, S. V. Lawande |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9803082 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9803082 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.831 |
Abstract
We show that the quadratic short time behaviour of transition probability is a natural consequence of the inner product of the Hilbert space of the quantum system. We prove that Schr\"odinger time evolution between two successive measurements is not a necessary but only a sufficient condition for predicting quantum Zeno effect. We provide a relation between the survival probability and the underlying geometric structure such as the Fubini-Study metric defined on the projective Hilbert space of the quantum system. This predicts the quantum Zeno effect even for systems described by non-linear and non-unitary evolution equations, within the collapse mechanism of the wavefunction during measurement process. Two examples are studied, one is non-linear Schr\"odinger equation and other is Gisin's equation and it is shown that one can observe quantum Zeno effect for systems described by these equations.
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