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Postselected weak measurement has shown significant potential for detecting small physical effects due to its unique weak-value-amplification phenomenon. Previous works suggest that Heisenberg-limit precision can be attained using only the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Zi-Rui Zhong , Xia-Lin Su , Xiang-Ming Hu , Ke-Xuan Chen , Hui-Lin Xu , Yan Zhang , Qing-Lin Wu

Postselected weak measurement is a useful protocol for amplifying weak physical effects. However, there has recently been controversy over whether it gives any advantage in precision. While it is now clear that retaining failed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

To describe the pre- and post-selected quantum ensembles, a complex quantity called the weak value of an operator is used. The weak value is highly controversial due to the fact that it is not bounded by the possible eigenvalues of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Aiham M. Rostom

The implementation of weak-value amplification requires the pre- and post-selection of states of a quantum system, followed by the observation of the response of the meter, which interacts weakly with the system. Data acquisition from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Bié Alves , B. M. Escher , R. L. de Matos Filho , N. Zagury , L. Davidovich

In a weak measurement with post-selection, a measurement value, called the weak value, can be amplified beyond the eigenvalues of the observable. However, there are some controversies whether the weak value amplification is practically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

Weak-value amplification employs postselection to enhance the measurement of small parameters of interest. The amplification comes at the expense of reduced success probability, hindering the utility of this technique as a tool for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Muthumanimaran Vetrivelan , Sai Vinjanampathy

The technical merits of weak value amplification techniques are analyzed. We consider models of several different types of technical noise in an optical context and show that weak value amplification techniques (which only use a small…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-01 Andrew N. Jordan , Julián Martínez-Rincón , John C. Howell

Sensors that harness exclusively quantum phenomena (such as entanglement) can achieve superior performance compared to those employing only classical principles. Recently, a technique based on postselected, weakly-performed measurements has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 George C. Knee , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Simon C. Benjamin , Erik M. Gauger

Weak values arise in quantum theory when the result of a weak measurement is conditioned on a subsequent strong measurement. The majority of the trials are discarded, leaving only very few successful events. Intriguingly those can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 George C. Knee , Joshua Combes , Christopher Ferrie , Erik M. Gauger

Weak value amplification and other postselection-based metrological protocols can enhance precision while estimating small parameters, outperforming postselection-free protocols. In general, these enhancements are largely constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Sourav Das , Subhrajit Modak , Manabendra Nath Bera

The viability of quantum communication schemes rely on sending quantum states of light over long distances. However, transmission loss can degrade the signal strength, adding noise. Heralded noiseless amplification of a quantum signal can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Joseph Ho , Allen Boston , Matthew Palsson , Geoff Pryde

It is known that weak measurement can significantly amplify the mean of measurement results, sometimes out of the range limited in usual quantum measurement. This fact, as actively demonstrated recently in both theory and experiment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Saki Tanaka , Naoki Yamamoto

In this article we present an experimental proposal for the estimation of an optomechanical parameter in the presence of noise. The estimation is based on the technique of weak value amplification which can enlarge the radiation pressure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Sergio Carrasco , Miguel Orszag

We investigate the potential of weak measurement and post-selection to enhance measurement sensitivity when the initial probe state is mixed. In our framework, the mixedness of the probe's density operator is controlled by temperature. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , Alexandre Matzkin , Alok Kumar Pan

Weak amplification is a signal enhancement technique which is used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined because of technical limitations. It is based on the existence of a special type of interaction which couples a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan P. Torres , Graciana Puentes , Nathaniel Hermosa , Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

Most studies for postselected weak measurement focus on using pure Gaussian state as a pointer, which can only give an amplification limit reaching the level of the ground state fluctuation. When the pointer is initialised in a thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Gang Li , Tao Wang , He-Shan Song

Due to the reduced probability of successful post-selection, the weak-value amplification seems to be unavailable for the parameter-estimation. Here, we show theoretically that, some effects due to the weak interactions present only in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Miao Zhang

In conventional measurement, to reach the greatest accuracy of parameter estimation, all samples must be measured since each independent sample contains the same quantum Fisher information. In postselected metrology, postselection can…

Postselection following weak measurements has long been investigated for its peculiar manifestation of quantum signatures. In particular, the postselected events can give rise to anomalous values lying outside the spectrum of the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Fabrizio Piacentini , Ivo P. Degiovanni , Marco Barbieri

We show that postselection offers a nonclassical advantage in metrology. In every parameter-estimation experiment, the final measurement or the postprocessing incurs some cost. Postselection can improve the rate of Fisher information (the…

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