"""Original ideal-model illustration; write the PNG into the current directory.""" from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def final_population(n): n = np.asarray(n) return (1 - np.cos(np.pi / n) ** n) / 2 def main(): plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 12, "axes.titlesize": 14}) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(12, 5.5), layout="constrained") fig.patch.set_facecolor("white") times = np.linspace(0, 1, 4097) left, right = axes left.plot(times, np.sin(np.pi * times / 2) ** 2, label="No intervening probes", color="0.3") for n, color in [(4, "#b65115"), (64, "#146eae")]: completed = np.minimum(np.floor(n * times).astype(int), n) fraction = times - completed / n z = np.cos(np.pi / n) ** completed population = (1 - z * np.cos(np.pi * fraction)) / 2 left.plot(times, population, label=f"{n} equally spaced probes", color=color, lw=2) left.set(title="Final population is suppressed by repeated probes", xlabel=r"Time / resonant $\pi$-pulse duration", ylabel=r"Population of $b$", xlim=(0, 1), ylim=(0, 1.03)) left.legend(loc="upper left", fontsize=10) counts = np.arange(1, 257) right.loglog(counts, final_population(counts), label="Final population in b", lw=2, color="#146eae") departure = -np.expm1(2 * counts * np.log(np.cos(np.pi / (2 * counts)))) right.loglog(counts, departure, label="At least one b result in the record", color="#b65115", ls="--", lw=2) large = counts[counts >= 8] right.loglog(large, np.pi**2 / (4 * large), color="0.4", ls=":", label=r"Common leading term $\pi^2/(4n)$") right.scatter([64], [final_population(64)], s=40, color="#146eae", zorder=5) right.annotate("n = 64: final population 3.71%", (64, final_population(64)), xytext=(18, 0.012), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "0.3"}, fontsize=10) right.set(title="Two different finite-probe probabilities", xlabel="Number of probes, n", ylabel="Probability", xlim=(1, 256), ylim=(0.006, 1.12)) right.legend(loc="upper right", fontsize=9) for axis in axes: axis.grid(alpha=0.18) fig.suptitle("Quantum Zeno inhibition: ideal instantaneous, nonselective measurements", fontsize=15) fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / "5-rabi-zeno-inhibition.png", dpi=120, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()