Abstract
We critically study the possibility of the quantum Zeno effect for indirect measurements. If the detector is prepared to detect the emitted signal from the core system, and does not reflect this signal back to the core system, then we can prove that the decay probability of the system is not changed by the continuous measurement of the signal and the quantum Zeno effect would never take place. This argument also applies to the quantum Zeno effect for accelerated two-level systems and unstable particle decays.
- Received 14 October 2003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052114
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