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Weak Values with Decoherence

Quantum Physics 2010-06-11 v3 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

The weak value of an observable is experimentally accessible by weak measurements as theoretically analyzed by Aharonov et al. and recently experimentally demonstrated. We introduce a weak operator associated with the weak values and give a general framework of quantum operations to the W operator in parallel with the Kraus representation of the completely positive map for the density operator. The decoherence effect is also investigated in terms of the weak measurement by a shift of a probe wave function of continuous variable. As an application, we demonstrate how the geometric phase is affected by the bit flip noise.

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@article{arxiv.0812.4502,
  title  = {Weak Values with Decoherence},
  author = {Yutaka Shikano and Akio Hosoya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4502},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures

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