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We refute the widely held belief that the quantum weak value necessarily pertains to weak measurements. To accomplish this, we use the transverse position of a beam as the detector for the conditioned von Neumann measurement of a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 J. Dressel , A. N. Jordan

While the novel applications of weak values have recently attracted wide attention, weak measurement, the usual way to extract weak values, suffers from risky approximations and severe quantum noises. In this paper, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

The concept of a modular value of an observable of a pre- and post-selected quantum system is introduced. It is similar in form and in some cases has a close connection to the weak value of an observable, but instead of describing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Yaron Kedem , Lev Vaidman

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

The neutron spin structure function, $g_{1n}$, has been of considerable interest recently in connection with the Bjorken sum rule and the proton spin crisis. Work on this problem has concentrated on measurements at low-$x$. We recall the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-17 Anthony W. Thomas

Modular values are quantities that described by pre- and postselected states of quantum systems like weak values but are different from them: The associated interaction is not necessary to be weak. We discuss an optimal modular-value-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Le Bin Ho , Yasushi Kondo

We connect the weak measurements framework to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. We show how Feynman propagators can in principle be experimentally inferred from weak value measurements. We also obtain expressions for weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 A. Matzkin

The relatively small fraction of the spin of the proton carried by its quarks presents a major challenge to our understanding of the strong interaction. Traditional efforts to explore this problem have involved new and imaginative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 P. E. Shanahan , A. W. Thomas , K. Tsushima , R. D. Young , F. Myhrer

The latest XENON100 data severely constrains dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei, leading to impressive upper limits on the spin-independent cross-section. The main goal of this paper is to stress that the same data set has also an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-13 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , Miguel Pato , Stefan Vogl

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

A statistical analysis of optimal universal cloning shows that it is possible to identify an ideal (but non-positive) copying process that faithfully maps all properties of the original Hilbert space onto two separate quantum systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Holger F. Hofmann

Quantum weak measurement, measuring some observable quantities within the selected subensemble of the entire quantum ensemble, can produce many interesting results such as the superluminal phenomena. An outcome of such a measurement is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Miao Zhang

Vaidman, Phys.Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013), has proposed a weak value criterion for the past of a quantum particle, and applied it to photons in a particular setup of nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers. From his analysis, he draws some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 B. E. Y. Svensson

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

Using the LS coupling we find the most positive and negative values of the spin operator sigma.These theoretical limits are much wider than the "empirical" single particle limits.A comparison of the Nilsson and Schmidt models is made for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-01 Larry Zamick

We present a second-quantized field theory of massive spin one-half particles or antiparticles in the presence of a weak gravitational field treated as a spin two external field in a flat Minkowski background. We solve the difficulties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Christian J. Bordé , Jean-Claude Houard , Alain Karasiewicz

Nucleon spin fluctuations in a dense medium reduce the ``naive'' values of weak interaction rates (neutrino opacities, neutrino emissivities). We extend previous studies of this effect to the degenerate case which is appropriate for neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Georg Raffelt , Thomas Strobel

We present a search for possible spin dependent interactions of the neutron with matter through exchange of spin 1 bosons with axial vector couplings as envisioned in possible extensions of the Standard Model. This was sought using a slow…

The state of a particle in space and time is characterized by its mass and spin, which therefore determine the inertial properties of the particle. The coupling of intrinsic spin with rotation is examined and the corresponding inertial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bahram Mashhoon , Helmut Kaiser

Weak measurement is an important technique for detecting the tiny spin-dependent splitting in photonic spin Hall effect. The weak measurement is only valid when the probe wavefunction remains almost undisturbed during the procedure of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shizhen Chen , Xinxing Zhou , Chengquan Mi , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen