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The readings of a highly inaccurate "weak" quantum meter, employed to determine the value of a dichotomous variable $S$ without destroying the interference between the alternatives,may take arbitrary values. We show that the expected values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 D. Sokolovski

"Weak measurements" -- involving a weak unitary interaction between a quantum system and a meter followed by a projective measurement -- are investigated when the system has a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show in particular how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 A. Matzkin

Weak values are quantities accessed through quantum experiments involving weak measurements and post-selection. It has been shown that 'anomalous' weak values (those lying beyond the eigenvalue range of the corresponding operator) defy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Ravi Kunjwal , Matteo Lostaglio , Matthew F. Pusey

The formalism of weak measurement in quantum mechanics has revealed profound connections between measurement theory, quantum foundations, and signal processing. In this paper, we develop a pointer-free derivation of superoscillations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Mirco A. Mannucci

A two-step measurement protocol of a quantum system, known as weak value (WV), has been introduced more than two decades ago by Aharonov et al. [1], and has since been studied in various contexts. Here we discuss another two-step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

We present a weak measurement protocol that permits a sensitive estimation of angular rotations based on the concept of weak-value amplification. The shift in the state of a pointer, in both angular position and the conjugate orbital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Omar S. Magana-Loaiza , Mohammad Mirhosseini , Brandon Rodenburg , Robert W. Boyd

Weak values of quantum observables are a powerful tool for investigating quantum phenomena. Some methods for measuring weak values in the laboratory require weak interactions and postselection, while others are deterministic, but require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Giulio Chiribella , Kyrylo Simonov , Xuanqiang Zhao

Most studies for postselected weak measurement in optomechanical system focus on using a single photon as a measured system. However, we find that using weak coherent light instead of a single photon can also amplify the mirror's position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Gang Li , Wen Yang

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a metrological protocol that amplifies ultra-small physical effects. However, the amplified outcomes necessarily occur with highly suppressed probabilities, leading to the extensive debate on whether the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Liang Xu , Zexuan Liu , Animesh Datta , George C. Knee , Jeff S. Lundeen , Yan-qing Lu , Lijian Zhang

We study the effect of decoherence on a weak value measurement in a paradigm system consisting of a double quantum dot continuously measured by a quantum point contact. Fluctuations of the parameters controlling the dot state induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Mark Thomas , Alessandro Romito

Quantum measurements can be generalized to include complex quantities. It is possible to relate the quantum weak values of projection operators to the third order Bargmann invariants. The argument of the weak value becomes, up to a sign,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Z. Gedik

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

We generalize the concept of a weak value of a quantum observable to cover arbitrary real positive operator measures. We show that the definition is operationally meaningful in the sense that it can be understood within the quantum theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Erkka Haapasalo , Pekka Lahti , Jussi Schultz

Statistical paradoxes such as the Hardy paradox and the enhancement of phase estimation via post-selection both draw upon the same non-classical features of quantum statistics described by non-positive quasi-probabilities. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Ming Ji , Yuxiang Yang , Holger F. Hofmann

Weak Feller property of controlled and control-free Markov chains lead to many desirable properties. In control-free setups this leads to the existence of invariant probability measures for compact spaces and applicability of numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Ali Devran Kara , Naci Saldi , Serdar Yüksel

The weak measurement proposed by Aharonov and his colleagues extracts information of a physical quantity of the system by the post selection as the shifts of the argument of the probe wavefunction. The shift is called the weak value and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yuki Susa , Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

Precise definitions of "weak [quantum] measurements" and "weak value" [of a quantum observable] are offered, which seem to capture the meaning of the often vague ways that these terms are used in the literature. Simple finite dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-11 Stephen Parrott

Since its introduction 25 years ago, the quantum weak value has gradually transitioned from a theoretical curiosity to a practical laboratory tool. While its utility is apparent in the recent explosion of weak value experiments, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Justin Dressel , Mehul Malik , Filippo M. Miatto , Andrew N. Jordan , Robert W. Boyd

Through the von Neumann interaction followed by post-selection, we can extract not only the eigenvalue of an observable of the measured system but also the weak value. In this post-selected von Neumann measurement, the initial pointer state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Yusuf Turek , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Tomotada Akutsu , Chang-Pu Sun , Yutaka Shikano

In a seminal work, Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman showed that by having a weak interaction between a system and a detecting apparatus, the average output of the latter could be much larger than the maximum eigenvalue of the observed quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Antonio Di Lorenzo