{"id":155254,"date":"2023-01-12T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-quantum-zeno-effect-from-motionless-arrows-to-entangled-freezers"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:22:45","slug":"the-quantum-zeno-effect-from-motionless-arrows-to-entangled-freezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-quantum-zeno-effect-from-motionless-arrows-to-entangled-freezers","title":{"rendered":"The Quantum Zeno Effect: From Motionless Arrows to Entangled Freezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfUn8cR-eXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Long before we had quantum computers, classical computers, or even calculus, an ancient Greek philosopher known as Zeno of Elea used thought experiments to probe apparent paradoxes. Zeno imagined an arrow flying through the air. At each instant of time, he reasoned, the arrow is stationary. If the arrow\u2019s trajectory is entirely composed of stationary instants, how can the arrow ever move through space? Motion is impossible!<\/p>\n<p>Zeno\u2019s ancient arrow paradox has since evolved into a quantum thought experiment, \u201cthe quantum Zeno effect,\u201d whereby we can freeze the state of quantum systems by continuously observing them. In the latest installment of our Quantum Paradoxes content series, I explain the quantum Zeno effect, and show how we can test it out using Qiskit on quantum computers. Read on to find out how this counterintuitive quantum freezing works, and how to create your own quantum freezer game \u2014 which even works with entangled qubits! All the code you need is in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maria-violaris\/quantum-paradoxes\/blob\/main\/quantum-zeno-effect.ipynb\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">this Jupyter Notebook<\/a>, and you\u2019ll also find a detailed explanation in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vfUn8cR-eXw\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">our latest Quantum Paradoxes video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vfUn8cR-eXw\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vfUn8cR-eXw\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/vfUn8cR-eXw<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before we had quantum computers, classical computers, or even calculus, an ancient Greek philosopher known as Zeno of Elea used thought experiments to probe apparent paradoxes. Zeno imagined an arrow flying through the air. At each instant of time, he reasoned, the arrow is stationary. If the arrow\u2019s trajectory is entirely composed of stationary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}