TY - JOUR AU - Luis Aina, Alfredo AU - Gonzalo Fonrodona, Isabel AU - Porras, Miguel A. PY - 2013 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.064102 SN - 1050-2947 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34655 T2 - Physical review A AB - We describe a version of the Zeno effect where the monitored physical property cannot be represented by a standard operator in the system space and the evolution to be prevented by observation is not unitary. This is the case of quantum-state purity... LA - eng M2 - 064102/1 PB - American Physical Society KW - Quasi-stationary state KW - Unpolarized radiation TI - Zeno effect in degree of polarization of a single photon or quantum-state purity of a spin-1/2 system TY - journal article VL - 86 ER -