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Phys. Rev. A 42, 5720–5722 (1990)

Incomplete ‘‘collapse’’ and partial quantum Zeno effect

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Asher Peres and Amiram Ron
Department of Physics, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Received 4 April 1990; published in the issue dated November 1990

If the interaction generating a quantum measurement is too weak to completely ‘‘collapse’’ the wave function, a partial quantum Zeno effect may result. An experimental test is proposed.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.42.5720
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.42.5720
PACS:
32.80.-t, 03.65.Bz, 42.50.Md