Repeater-assisted Zeno effect in classical stochastic processes

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that a classical Zeno effect can occur in stochastic processes when multiple repeaters are used to check and recover information, suppressing decay similarly to quantum systems.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of a classical Zeno effect enabled by repeaters, showing that decay suppression is possible in classical stochastic processes.

Findings

Decay rate is significantly suppressed with enough repeaters.

Classical Zeno effect is demonstrated without quantum interference.

The phenomenon is purely classical, not quantum.

Abstract

As a classical state, for instance a digitized image, is transferred through a classical channel, it decays inevitably with the distance due to the surroundings' interferences. However, if there are enough number of repeaters, which can both check and recover the state's information continuously, the state's decay rate will be significantly suppressed, then a classical Zeno effect might occur. Such a physical process is purely classical and without any interferences of living beings, therefore, it manifests that the Zeno effect is no longer a patent of quantum mechanics, but does exist in classical stochastic processes.