Zeno effects: Schrödinger’s cat dies sooner or later. If one peeks into the cat box frequently—thousands of times a second—you can either delay the fateful choice or, conversely, accelerate it. The delay is known as the quantum Zeno effect and the acceleration as the quantum anti-Zeno effect.

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Zeno effects: Schrödinger’s cat dies sooner or later. If one peeks into the cat box frequently—thousands of times a second—you can either delay the fateful choice or, conversely, accelerate it. The delay is known as the quantum Zeno effect and the acceleration as the quantum anti-Zeno effect.