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The arrival time probability distribution is defined by analogy with the classical mechanics. The difficulty of requirement to have the values of non-commuting operators is circumvented using the concept of weak measurements. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

Weak values are average quantities,therefore investigating their associated variance is crucial in understanding their place in quantum mechanics. We develop the concept of a position-postselected weak variance of momentum as cohesively as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 M. R. Feyereisen

Negative probabilities arise primarily in physics, statistical quantum mechanics and quantum computing. Negative probabilities arise as mixing distributions of unobserved latent variables in Bayesian modeling. Our goal is to provide a link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

Bipartite quantum entangled systems can exhibit measurement correlations that violate Bell inequalities, revealing the profoundly counter-intuitive nature of the physical universe. These correlations reflect the impossibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 B. L. Higgins , M. S. Palsson , G. Y. Xiang , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

Weak values are usually associated with weak measurements of an observable on a pre- and post-selected ensemble. We show that more generally, weak values are proportional to the correlation between two pointers in a successive measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Lars M. Johansen , Pier A. Mello

Weak measurement is a novel technique for parameter estimation with higher precision. In this paper we develop a general theory for the parameter estimation based on weak measurement technique with arbitrary postselection. The previous weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Yang Yu , Qin-Zheng Li , Guihua Zeng

It is well known from quantum mechanics that weak measurements offer a means of amplifying and detecting very small phenomena. We present here the first experimental observation of the Goos-Hanchen shift via a weak measurement approach.

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Jayaswal , G. Mistura , M. Merano

The weak value, the average result of a weak measurement, has proven useful for probing quantum and classical systems. Examples include the amplification of small signals, investigating quantum paradoxes, and elucidating fundamental quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 A. Hariri , D. Curic , L. Giner , J. S. Lundeen

Weak measurement with a coherent state pointer and in combination with an orthogonal postselection can lead to a surprising amplification effect, and we give a fire-new physical mechanism about the weak measurement in order to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Gang Li , Ming-Yong Ye , Xiu-Min Lin , He-Shan Song

We investigate the sequential composition of weak values in the framework of time-symmetric quantum mechanics. Specifically, we consider a forward'' weak measurement from a preselected state $\ket{\psi}$ to a post-selected state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Mirco A. Mannucci

By using both, the weak-value formulation as well as the standard probabilistic approach, we analyze the Hardy's experiment introducing a complex and dimensionless parameter ($\epsilon$) which eliminates the assumption of complete…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ivan Arraut

The AAV effect is the well-known phenomenon where a weak measurement followed by post-selection leads to a pointer shift proportional to the weak value of the measured observable. The effect is usually derived by considering a perturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 Jeff Z. Salvail

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

We develop a formal theory of the weak values with emphasis on the consistency conditions and a probabilistic interpretation in the counter-factual processes. We present the condition for the choice of the post-selected state to give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-19 Akio Hosoya , Yutaka Shikano

The exact conditions on valid pointer states for weak measurements are derived. It is demonstrated that weak measurements can be performed with any pointer state with vanishing probability current density. This condition is found both for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lars M. Johansen

The variance of an observable in a pre-selected quantum system, which is always real and non-negative, appears as an increase in the probe wave packet width in indirect measurements. Extending this framework to pre- and post-selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Kazuhisa Ogawa , Natsuki Abe , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Akihisa Tomita

Weak measurement is unique in enabling measurements of non-commuting operators as well as otherwise-undetectable peculiar phenomena predicted by the Two-State-Vector-Formalism (TSVF). This article, the first in two parts, explores novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avshalom C. Elitzur

Post-selected weak measurement has been widely used in experiments to observe weak effects in various physical systems. However, it is still unclear how large the amplification ability of a weak measurement can be and what determines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

In the weak measurement formalism of Y. Aharonov et al. the so-called weak value A_w of any observable A is generally a complex number. We derive a physical interpretation of its value in terms of the shift in the measurement pointer's mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard Jozsa

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