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Current quantum computer technology is sufficient to realize weak measurements and the corresponding concept of weak values. We demonstrate how the weak value anomaly can be tested, along with consistency and simultaneity of weak values,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-20 Todd A. Brun , Lajos Diosi , Walter T. Strunz

Quantum measurement is one of the most fascinating and discussed phenomena in quantum physics, due to the impact on the system of the measurement action and the resulting interpretation issues. Scholars proposed weak measurements to amplify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , Riccardo Muolo , Yves Caudano , Timoteo Carletti

Weak measurement is a novel quantum measurement scheme, which is usually characterized by the weak value formalism. To guarantee the validity of the weak value formalism, the fidelity between the pre-selection and the post-selection should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shengshi Pang , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Weak measurement of a quantum system followed by postselection based on a subsequent strong measurement gives rise to a quantity called the weak value: a complex number for which the interpretation has long been debated. We analyse the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Angela Karanjai , Eric G. Cavalcanti , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

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

The outcome of a weak quantum measurement conditioned to a subsequent postselection (a weak value protocol) can assume peculiar values. These results cannot be explained in terms of conditional probabilistic outcomes of projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Alessandro Romito , Andrew N. Jordan , Yakir Aharonov , Yuval Gefen

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

I show that the application of the quantum-mechanical (QM) which-way weak measurement scheme of Vaidman may lead to logical inconsistencies. To this end, I study weak values of projection operators. Weak values are (normalized) amplitudes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 B. E. Y. Svensson

We review the definition and the concepts of the weak values and some measurement model to extract the weak value. This material is based on the author Ph.D. thesis "Time in Weak Values and Discrete Time Quantum Walk" at Tokyo Institute of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Yutaka Shikano

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

We re-examine the status of the weak value of a quantum mechanical observable as an objective physical concept, addressing its physical interpretation and general domain of applicability. We show that the weak value can be regarded as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yakir Aharonov , Alonso Botero

Various quantum measurement procedures are analyzed and it is shown that under certain conditions they yield consistently {\em weak values} which might be very different from the eigenvalues, the allowed outcomes according to the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Vaidman

We derive schemes to measure the so-called weak values of quantum system observables by coupling of the system to a qubit meter system. We highlight, in particular, the meaning of the imaginary part of the weak values, and show how it can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shengjun Wu , Klaus Mølmer

A large literature has grown up around the proposed use of 'weak measurements' (i.e., unsharp measurements followed by post-selection) to allegedly provide information about hidden ontological features of quantum systems. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 R. E. Kastner

Historically, weak values have been associated with weak measurements performed on quantum systems. Over the past two decades, a series of works have shown that weak values can be determined via measurements of arbitrary strength. One such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 David R. A. Ruelas Paredes , Mariano Uria , Eduardo Massoni , Francisco De Zela

Weak values are the fundamental values for observables in a pre- and post-selected system. Weak values are typically measured by weak measurement, in which weak values appear in the change of not the pre- and post-selected system but the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Kazuhisa Ogawa , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Akihisa Tomita

Non-statistical weak measurements yield weak values that are outside the range of eigenvalues and are not rare, suggesting that weak values are a property of every pre-and-post-selected ensemble. They also extend the applicability and valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeff Tollaksen , Yakir Aharonov

In analogy with conventional quantum mechanics, non-commutative quantum mechanics is formulated as a quantum system on the Hilbert space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators acting on non-commutative configuration space. It is argued that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-17 F G Scholtz , L Gouba , A Hafver , C M Rohwer

Some recent attempts at measuring non local weak values via local measurements are discussed and shown to be less robust than standard weak measurements. A method for measuring some non local weak values via non local measurements (non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 Aharon Brodutch , Lev Vaidman

We discuss two questions related to the concept of weak values as seen from the standard quantum-mechanics point of view. In the first part of the paper, we describe a scenario where unphysical results similar to those encountered in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 S. Ashhab , Franco Nori