The Quantum Zeno Effect Model implements a series of ideal polarizors and rotors, as described by Paul G. Kwiat, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), in his website Interaction Free Measurements, Step Two: The Quantum Zeno Effect, and in Quantum Seeing in the Dark, Scientific American, November 1966 .
The simulator is based on some of the basic fundamental ideas of Quantum Mechanics:
1. the wave-particle nature of the photon,
2. the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics,
3. the superposition of quantum states, and
4. the projection postulate, also called wave function collapse postulate.
This gedanken experiment shows how the normal time evolution of a quantum system can be frozen, in such a way that reminds us of the ancient Greek Zeno's lack of movement paradox.
Please note that this resource requires
at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).
Quantum Zeno Effect Model Video Tutorial
A short video tutorial showing how to run Quantum Zeno Effect simulation. download 4050kb .mp4
Last Modified: February 14, 2015
Quantum Zeno Effect Source Code
The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Quantum Zeno Effect Model. Unzip this archive in your EjsS workspace to compile and run this model using EjsS. download 370kb .zip
Last Modified: February 14, 2015
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