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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

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

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached when a mechanical oscillator subjected to the force is…

The weak measurement proposed by Aharonov and his colleagues extracts information of a physical quantity of the system by the post selection as the shifts of the argument of the probe wavefunction. The shift is called the weak value and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yuki Susa , Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

Due to the reduced probability of successful post-selection, the weak-value amplification seems to be unavailable for the parameter-estimation. Here, we show theoretically that, some effects due to the weak interactions present only in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Miao Zhang

Weak values arise in quantum theory when the result of a weak measurement is conditioned on a subsequent strong measurement. The majority of the trials are discarded, leaving only very few successful events. Intriguingly those can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 George C. Knee , Joshua Combes , Christopher Ferrie , Erik M. Gauger

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

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

Using the profound interferometric philosophy of weak value amplification, we propose a simple, general and a robust polarization method for the amplification and quantification of small magnitudes of all possible polarization anisotropy…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-09 Niladri Modak , Athira B S , Ankit Kumar Singh , Nirmalya Ghosh

Weak-value amplification (WVA) is a metrological protocol that effectively amplifies ultra-small physical effects, making it highly applicable in the fields of quantum sensing and metrology. However, the amplification effect is achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang

Weak-value amplification employs postselection to enhance the measurement of small parameters of interest. The amplification comes at the expense of reduced success probability, hindering the utility of this technique as a tool for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Muthumanimaran Vetrivelan , Sai Vinjanampathy

Weak values and measurements have been proposed as means to achieve dramatic enhancements in metrology based on the greatly increased range of possible measurement outcomes. Unfortunately, the very large values of measurement outcomes occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Lijian Zhang , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

We show using statistically rigorous arguments that the technique of weak value amplification (WVA) does not perform better than standard statistical techniques for the tasks of single parameter estimation and signal detection. Specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Christopher Ferrie , Joshua Combes

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

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

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

We introduce an ultra-sensitive interferometric protocol that combines weak value amplification (WVA) with traditional interferometry. This protocol WVA + interferometry uses weak value amplification of the relative delay between two paths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jing-Hui Huang , Kyle M. Jordan , Adetunmise C. Dada , Xiang-Yun Hu , Jeff. S. Lundeen

Closed expressions are derived for the quantum measurement statistics of pre-and postselected gaussian particle beams. The weakness of the pre-selection step is shown to compete with the non-orthogonality of post-selection in a transparent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 Tamas Geszti

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…