An experimental atomic physicist who coauthored a 1990 demonstration of the quantum Zeno effect. The team confined laser-cooled beryllium ions in a Penning trap and repeatedly probed their state with short light pulses while driving a transition between hyperfine levels. More frequent probing inhibited population transfer, turning the influence of measurement on driven quantum dynamics into a laboratory observable.[ref]
Quantum Zeno effect by Wayne M. Itano, Daniel J. Heinzen, John J. Bollinger and David J. Wineland. Abstract: trapped beryllium ions, radiofrequency drive and optical state probes
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