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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 69, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.032314
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We unify the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and the bang-bang (BB) decoupling method for suppressing decoherence in open quantum systems: in both cases strong coupling to an external system or apparatus induces a dynamical superselection rule that partitions the open system's Hilbert space into quantum Zeno subspaces. Our unification makes use of von Neumann' s ergodic theorem and avoids making any of the symmetry assumptions usually made in discussions of BB. Thus we are able to generalize the BB to arbitrary fast and strong pulse sequences, requiring no symmetry, and to show the existence of two alternatives to a pulsed BB: continuous decoupling and pulsed measurements. Our unified treatment enables us to derive limits on the efficacy of the BB method: we explicitly show that the inverse QZE implies that the BB can in some cases accelerate, rather than inhibit, decoherence.
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