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Item On von Neumann's hypothesis of collapse of the wave function and quantum Zeno paradox in continuous measurement(2011-05) Kim, Dongil; Sudarshan, E. C. G.; Petrosky, Tomio Y.; Bohm, Arno R.; Schieve, William C.; Wyatt, Robert E.The experiment performed by Itano, Heinzen, Bollinger and Wineland on the quantum Zeno effect is analyzed in detail through a quantum map derived by conventional quantum mechanics based on the Schrodinger equation. The analysis shows that a slight modification of their experiment leads to a significantly different result from the one that is predicted through von Neumann's hypothesis of collapse of the wave function in the quantum measurement theory. This may offer a possibility of an experimental test of von Neumann's quantum measurement theory.