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We show that injecting a light pulse prepared in the Shroedinger cat quantum state into the dark port of a two-arm interferometer and the strong classical light into the bright one, it is possible, in principle, to detect a given phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 V. L. Gorshenin

By exploiting the hyperentanglement, we propose a new concrete scheme to realize weak value amplification, which can be implemented by N hyperentangled photons along with coincidence detection. Our scheme can optimally increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Jing-Zheng Huang , Qin-Zheng Li , Chen Fang , Gui-Hua Zeng

The optical analogue of quantum weak measurements have shown considerable promise for the amplification and observation of tiny optical beam shifts, namely, the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and the Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts. Here, we demonstrate…

Some predictions regarding pre- and post-selected states are far-reaching, thereby requiring validation with standard quantum measurements in addition to the customary weak measurements used so far, as well as other advanced techniques. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avishy Carmi , Avshalom C. Elitzur

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

I show that an optical amplifier, when combined with photon subtraction, can be used for quantum state amplification, adding noise at a level below the standard minimum. The device could be used to significantly decrease the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 John Jeffers

The second order correlation function is traditionally used to characterize the photon statistics and to distinguish between classical and quantum states of light. In this article we study a simple setup offering the possibility to generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Rajiv Boddeda , Quentin Glorieux , Alberto Bramati , Simon Pigeon

Rydberg atoms, with their long coherence time and large electric dipole moment, are pivotal in quantum precision measurement. In the process of approaching the standard quantum limit, higher demands are placed on detection schemes. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Yinghang Jiang , Jiguo Wu , Meng Shi , Hanqing Zheng , Fei Guo , Zhiguang Xiao , Zhiyou Zhang

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 measurement with a coherent state pointer and in combination with an orthogonal postselection can lead to a surprising amplification effect, and we give a fire-new physical mechanism about the weak measurement in order to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Gang Li , Ming-Yong Ye , Xiu-Min Lin , He-Shan Song

We present a model to detect a classical state mixed with an idler photon from a polarization-entangled pair. A weak coherent light with a well-defined polarization, matched in wavelength to the idler photon, is injected into the idler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kim Fook Lee , Prem Kumar

We propose an optical scheme to generate a superposition of coherent states with enhanced size adopting an interferometric setting at the single-photon level currently available in the laboratory. Our scheme employs a nondegenerate optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Chang-Woo Lee , Jinhyoung Lee , Hyunchul Nha , Hyunseok Jeong

Improving the phase resolution of interferometry is crucial for high-precision measurements of various physical quantities. Systematic phase errors dominate the phase uncertainties in most realistic optical interferometers. Here we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Li Li , Yuan Li , You-Lang Zhang , Sixia Yu , Chao-Yang Lu , Nai-Le Liu , Jun Zhang , Jian-Wei Pan

We introduce a protocol for generating a broad class of non-Gaussian (nG) quantum states via postselected weak measurement techniques. The scheme involves injecting an arbitrary quantum state and a single photon into the signal and idler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Xiao-Xi Yao , Yusuf Turek

We propose a versatile and efficient method to generate a broad class of complex entangled states of many atoms via the detection of a single photon. For an atomic ensemble contained in a strongly coupled optical cavity illuminated by weak…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Wenlan Chen , Jiazhong Hu , Yiheng Duan , Boris Braverman , Hao Zhang , Vladan Vuletic

We investigated precision measurements in a two-level system coupled to a single-photon-added coherent state (SPACS) under postselection measurement. We analyzed strategies for improving measurement precision, including parameter estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yi-Fang Ren , Yusuf Turek

We analyze the amplification by the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman weak quantum measurement on a Sagnac interferometer [P. B. Dixon et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 173601 (2009)] up to all orders of the coupling strength between the measured system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tatsuhiko Koike , Saki Tanaka

Nearly thirty years ago the possibility of anomalous weak amplfication (AWA) was revealed by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman [1]. Recently two papers presents two AWA schemes which are beyond the traditional proposal given by them [14, 15]. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Tao Wang , Rui Zhang , Gang Li , Xue-Mei Su

Superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states, introduced in Schroedinger's famous Gedankenexperiment, are an epitome of quantum "strangeness" and a natural tool for determining the validity limits of quantum physics. The…

We investigate the utility of non classical states of simple harmonic oscillators (a superposition of coherent states) for sensitive force detection. We find that like squeezed states a superposition of coherent states allows the detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro , G. J. Milburn , S. L. Braunstein