Feasible optical weak measurements of complementary observables via a single Hamiltonian
Quantum Physics
2012-02-27 v2 Optics
Abstract
A general formalism for joint weak measurements of a pair of complementary observables is given. The standard process of optical three-wave mixing in a nonlinear crystal (such as in parametric down-conversion) is suitable for such tasks. To obtain the weak value of a variable one performs weak measurements twice, with different initial states of the "meter" field. This seems to be a drawback, but as a compensation we get for free the weak value of a complementary variable . The scheme is tunable and versatile: one has access to a continuous set of possible weak measurements of pair of observables. The scheme increases signal-to-noise ratio with respect to the case without postselection.
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@article{arxiv.1106.4607,
title = {Feasible optical weak measurements of complementary observables via a single Hamiltonian},
author = {Shengjun Wu and Marek Żukowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4607},
year = {2012}
}
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