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Fluctuation-induced quantum Zeno effect

Heinrich Fröml, Alessio Chiocchetta, Corinna Kollath, Sebastian Diehl

Published 2018-09-24Version 1

An isolated quantum gas with a localized loss features a non-monotonic behavior of the particle loss rate as an incarnation of the quantum Zeno effect, as recently shown in experiments with cold atomic gases. While this effect can be understood in terms of local, microscopic physics, we show that novel many-body effects emerge when non-linear gapless quantum fluctuations become important. To this end, we investigate the effect of a local dissipative impurity on an one-dimensional gas of interacting fermions. We show that the escape probability for modes close to the Fermi energy vanishes for an arbitrary strength of the dissipation. In addition, transport properties across the impurity are qualitatively modified, similarly to the Kane-Fisher barrier problem. We substantiate these findings using both a microscopic model of spinless fermions and a Luttinger liquid description.