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We study the amplification of weak magnetic field with Weak-value technique based on Faraday magneto-optic effect. By using a different scheme to perform the Sagnac interferometer with the probe in momentum space, we have demonstrated the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Jing-Hui Huang , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Some exact formulae of the expectation values and probability densities in a weak measurement for an operator ${\bf A}$ which satisfies the property ${\bf A}^{2}=1$ are derived. These formulae include all-order effects of the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouji Nakamura , Atsushi Nishizawa , Masa-Katsu Fujimoto

The weak values and weak measurement formalism were initially limited to pure states, which were later extended to mixed states, leading to intriguing applications in quantum information processing tasks. Weak values are considered to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajendra Singh Bhati

Recently, weak value $\rm A_w$ derived in the pre- and post-selected weak measurement has been shown to be powerful in measuring minute physical effects. In principle, the decrease in the post-selection probability will increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Jing-Hui Huang , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Weak values are traditionally obtained using a weak interaction between the measured system and a pointer state. It has, however, been pointed out that weak coupling can be replaced by a carefully tailored strong interaction. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jan Roik , Karel Lemr , Antonín Černoch , Karol Bartkiewicz

We consider the use of cyclic weak measurements to improve the sensitivity of weak-value amplification precision measurement schemes. Previous weak-value experiments have used only a small fraction of events, while discarding the rest…

The optical analogue of quantum weak measurements have shown considerable promise for the amplification and observation of tiny optical beam shifts, namely, the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and the Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts. Here, we demonstrate…

We address the quantum estimation of parameters encoded into the initial state of two modes of a Dirac field described by relatively accelerated parties. By using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), we investigate how the weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 H. Rangani Jahromi

Nonlinear forces allow motion of a mechanical oscillator to be squeezed below the zero-point motion. Of existing methods, mechanical parametric amplification is relatively accessible, but previously thought to be limited to 3dB of squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Alex Szorkovszky , Andrew C. Doherty , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen

Since weak measurements are known to produce measurement values that can be much larger than the maximal eigenvalues of the measured observable, it is an interesting question how this enhancement of the measurement signal relates to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Holger F. Hofmann

We discuss two questions related to the concept of weak values as seen from the standard quantum-mechanics point of view. In the first part of the paper, we describe a scenario where unphysical results similar to those encountered in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

Current quantum computer technology is sufficient to realize weak measurements and the corresponding concept of weak values. We demonstrate how the weak value anomaly can be tested, along with consistency and simultaneity of weak values,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-20 Todd A. Brun , Lajos Diosi , Walter T. Strunz

Using the profound interferometric philosophy of weak value amplification, we propose a simple, general and a robust polarization method for the amplification and quantification of small magnitudes of all possible polarization anisotropy…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-09 Niladri Modak , Athira B S , Ankit Kumar Singh , Nirmalya Ghosh

Direct weak or strong measurement of quantum wave function has been demonstrated based on the post-selection; however, the efficiency of the measurement is greatly limited by the success probability of the post-selection. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yong-Li Wen , Shanchao Zhang , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

Experiments based on free space platform have demonstrated that the weak value amplification (WVA) technique can provide high sensitivity and precision for optical sensing and metrology. To promote this technique for real-world…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-24 Han Wang , Jingzheng Huang , Chaozheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng

Conventional quantum mechanics describes a pre- and post-selected system in terms of virtual (Feynman) paths via which the final state can be reached. In the absence of probabilities, a weak measurement (WM) determines the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 D. Sokolovski

We report on the use of an interferometric weak value technique to amplify very small transverse deflections of an optical beam. By entangling the beam's transverse degrees of freedom with the which-path states of a Sagnac interferometer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 P. Ben Dixon , David J. Starling , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

The real part of the weak value is identified as the conditional Bayes probability through the quantum analog of the Bayes relation. We present an explicit protocol to get the the weak values in a simple Mach-Zehnder interferometer model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Akio Hosoya

We generalize the targeted $\mathcal{B}$-statistic for continuous gravitational waves by modeling the $h_0$-prior as a half-Gaussian distribution with scale parameter $H$. This approach retains analytic tractability for two of the four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Reinhard Prix

The weak value exhibits numerous intriguing characteristics, such as values outside the operator spectrum, leading to unexpected phenomena. Nevertheless, the measurement protocol used for measuring the weak value has been the subject of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Dorit Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen