Photon Polarization Measurements without the Quantum Zeno Effect
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photoneffectmeasurementpolarizationprojectivequantumwithoutzeno
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We consider a photon beam incident on a stack of polarizers as an example of a von Neumann projective measurement, theoretically leading to the quantum Zeno effect. The Maxwell theory (which is equivalent to the single photon Schr\"odinger equation) describes measured polarization phenomena, but without recourse to the notion of a projective measurement.
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