The Zeno effect and an inter-layer pairing mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in layered materials
Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) is the suppression of the inter-subspace transition 
by a relatively fast intra-subspace decoherence. Earlier, we had proposed 
a QZE-based mechanism for the temperature-dependent normal-state c-axis 
resistivity of the layered high-T c cuprate superconductors in which the singleparticle 
inter-layer tunneling is blocked by the strong intra-layer decoherence 
(entanglement). We now argue that while the single-particle inter-layer tunneling 
is thus blocked, the tunneling of the bosonic BCS-like pairs must remain 
unblocked inasmuch as a BCS pairing condensate is an eigenstate of the pair 
annihilation operator. This pair tunneling stabilizes high-T c superconductivity 
energetically.