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We propose a measurement-based method to produce a maximally-entangled state from a partially-entangled pure state. Our goal can be thought of as entanglement distillation from a single copy of a partially-entangled state. The present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Yukihiro Ota , Sahel Ashhab , Franco Nori

Postselected weak measurement has aroused broad interest for its distinctive ability to amplify small physical quantities. However, the low postselection efficiency to obtain a large weak value has been a big obstacle to its application in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

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 optical metrological protocols to measure physical quantities, it is, in principle, always beneficial to increase photon number to improve measurement precision. However, practical constraints prevent arbitrary increase of n due to the…

The ability to post-select the outcomes of an experiment is a useful theoretical concept and experimental tool. In the context of weak measurements post-selection can lead to surprising results such as complex weak values outside the range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 Dawei Lu , Aharon Brodutch , Jun Li , Hang Li , Raymond Laflamme

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

We explore the possibility of using "weak" measurements to carry out quantum state tomography. Given a certain fixed number of copies of identically prepared states of a qubit, we simulate state tomography using weak as well as projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Debmalya Das , Arvind

Achieving higher sensitivity is an earnest purpose for precision metrology. As a response to this goal, the weak value amplification approach has been developed for measuring ultra-small physical effects, realizing sensitivity that had…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jingzheng Huang , Yanjia Li , Chen Fang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng

Pre- and post-selected (PPS) measurement, especially the weak PPS measurement, is a useful protocol for amplifying small physical parameters. However, it is difficult to retain both the attainable highest measurement sensitivity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Zhaoxue Li , Jiangdong Qiu , Xiaodong Qiu , Linguo Xie , Lan Luo , Xiong Liu , Yu He , Qi Wang , Zhiyou Zhang , JingLei Du

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

We quantify the disturbance of a quantum state undergoing a sequence of observations, and particularly focus on a weak measurement followed by post-selection and compare these results to the projective counterpart. Taking into account the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Philipp Stammer

In the late 80s, a curious effect suggested by Aharanov, Albert and Vaidman opened up new vistas regarding quantum measurements on weakly coupled systems. There, a combination of a "weak" finite interaction together with a "strong"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Raul Coto , Víctor Montenegro , Vitalie Eremeev , Douglas Mundarain , Miguel Orszag

In a weak measurement, the average output $\langle o\rangle$ of a probe that measures an observable $\hat{A}$ of a quantum system undergoing both a preparation in a state $\rho_i$ and a postselection in a state $E_\mathrm{f}$ is, to a good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Antonio Di Lorenzo

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…

Weak-value amplification (WVA) is a post-selection-based technique that amplifies weak physical signals by preparing nearly orthogonal pre- and post-selected quantum states. It is intrinsically limited by various kinds of technical noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Xiang-Yun Hu , Jing-Hui Huang , Fei-Fan He , Guang-Jun Wang , Adetunmise C. Dada

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

The novel weak-value-amplification (WVA) scheme of precision metrology is deeply rooted in the quantum nature of destructive interference between the pre- and post-selection states. And, an alternative version, termed as joint WVA (JWVA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jialin Li , Yazhi Niu , Xinyi Wang , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

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

This paper starts with a brief review of the topic of strong and weak pre- and post-selected (PPS) quantum measurements, as well as weak values, and afterwards presents original work. In particular, we develop a nonperturbative theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Abraham G. Kofman , Sahel Ashhab , Franco Nori

The weak value amplification technique has been proved useful for precision metrology in both theory and experiment. To explore the ultimate performance of weak value amplification for multi-parameter estimation, we investigate a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Chen Fang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng