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A simple formula to read out the weak value from the wave function of the measuring device after the postselection with the initial Gaussian profile is proposed. We apply this formula for the weak value to the classical experiment of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Kouji Nakamura

The weak values and weak measurement formalism were initially limited to pure states, which were later extended to mixed states, leading to intriguing applications in quantum information processing tasks. Weak values are considered to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajendra Singh Bhati

The extraordinary concept of weak value amplification has attracted considerable attention for addressing foundational questions in quantum mechanics and for metrological applications in high precision measurement of small physical…

A new weak measurement procedure is introduced for finite samples which yields accurate weak values that are outside the range of eigenvalues and which do not require an exponentially rare ensemble. This procedure provides a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeff Tollaksen

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

Quantum-enhanced metrology can be achieved by entangling a probe with an auxiliary system, passing the probe through an interferometer, and subsequently making measurements on both the probe and auxiliary system. Conceptually, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

We extend the idea of weak measurements to the general case, provide a complete treatment and obtain results for both the regime when the pre-selected and post-selected states (PPS) are almost orthogonal and the regime when they are exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shengjun Wu , Yang Li

Weak measurement has garnered widespread interest for its ability to amplify small physical effects at the cost of low detection probabilities. Previous entanglement and recycling techniques enhance postselection efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Zi-Rui Zhong , Xia-lin Su , Xiang-Ming Hu , Qing-lin Wu

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a concept that has been extensively used in a myriad of applications with the aim of rendering measurable tiny changes of a variable of interest. In spite of this, there is still an on-going debate about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Juan P. Torres , Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

We propose a new protocol for the weak measurement of any observable with remote pre and postselections. We show that if two parties share a pure entangled state, then by using local operations and classical communication they can preselect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Arun Kumar Pati , Uttam Singh

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

Weak measurement is a standard measuring procedure with two changes: it is performed on pre- and post-selected quantum systems and the coupling to the measuring device is weakened. The outcomes of weak measurements, ``weak values'' are very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Lev Vaidman

We consider weakly coupled LQ optimal control problems and derive estimates on the sensitivity of the optimal value function in dependence of the coupling strength. In order to improve these sensitivity estimates a "coupling adapted" norm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Péter Koltai , Oliver Junge

Weak measurement has been shown to play important roles in the investigation of both fundamental and practical problems. Anomalous weak values are generally believed to be observed only when post-selection is performed, i.e, only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Mu Yang , Qiang Li , Zheng-Hao Liu , Ze-Yan Hao , Chang-Liang Ren , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

A weak measurement performed on a pre- and post-selected quantum system can result in an average value that lies outside of the observable's spectrum. This effect, usually referred to as an "anomalous weak value", is generally believed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Alastair A. Abbott , Ralph Silva , Julian Wechs , Nicolas Brunner , Cyril Branciard

We propose a scheme for enhanced probing of an interaction between two single fermions based on weak-value amplification. The scheme is applied to measuring the anisotropic electron-hole exchange interaction strength in semiconductor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alex Hayat , Amir Feizpour , Aephraim M. Steinberg

The influence of outside quantum noises on the amplification of weak measurements is investigated. Three typical quantum noises are discussed. The maximum values of the pointer's shifts decrease sharply with the strength of the depolarizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Xuanmin Zhu , Yu-Xiang Zhang

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

A mathematical extension of the weak value formalism to the simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters is presented in the context of an optical focused vector beam scatterometry experiment. In this example, preselection and…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-03 Anthony Vella , Stephen T. Head , Thomas G. Brown , Miguel A. Alonso

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