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An extension of the input-output relation for a conventional Michelson interferometric gravitational-wave detector is carried out to treat an arbitrary coherent state for the injected optical beam. This extension is one of necessary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Kouji Nakamura , Masa-Katsu Fujimoto

We investigate a weak measurement described by a von Neumann type interaction $\hat{A}\otimes \hat{p}^2$, where $\hat{A}$ is a system observable and $\hat{p}^2$ is a measurement pointer observable. We consider the weak measurement in terms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-24 Daiki Ueda , Hikaru Ohta , Sumito Yokoo

We verify the existence of scintillation enhancement by measuring the scintillation index of a beam composed of two coherent Gaussian vortex beams with $\pm 1$ topological charges propagating through thermally induced turbulence. Further…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Han-Tao Wang , Hua-Jun Zhang , Lu Zhang , Hui Lin , Ming-Yuan Ren , Yu Zhang

Contemporary gravitational-wave detectors are fundamentally limited by thermal noise -- due to dissipation in the mechanical elements of the test mass -- and quantum noise -- from the vacuum fluctuations of the optical field used to probe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chris Whittle , Lee McCuller , Vivishek Sudhir , Matthew Evans

Thermal fluctuations in the coatings used to make high-reflectors are becoming significant noise sources in precision optical measurements and are particularly relevant to advanced gravitational wave detectors. There are two recognized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Evans , S. Ballmer , M. Fejer , P. Fritschel , G. Harry , G. Ogin

A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometers is imposed by Brownian thermal fluctuations of the mirrors' surfaces. This thermal noise can be reduced by using larger beams which "average out" the random fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Hong , J. Miller , H. Yamamoto , Y. Chen , R. Adhikari

Weak measurement is a new technique which allows one to describe the evolution of postselected quantum systems. It appears to be useful for resolving a variety of thorny quantum paradoxes, particularly when used to study properties of pairs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. J. Resch , A. M. Steinberg

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 reveal a large spin angular splitting of light beam on reflection at the Brewster angle both theoretically and experimentally. A simple weak measurements system manifesting itself for the built-in post-selection technique is proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xinxing Zhou , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

We investigate the effects of weak value amplification on the nonclassical properties of two-mode squeezing vacuum state. To show the advantages of the two-mode squeezing vacuum state based post-selective weak measurements.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Janarbek Yuanbek , Yi-Fang Ren , Ahmad Abliz , Yusuf Turek

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…

A contactless control of mean values and fluctuations of position and velocity of a nanoobject belongs among the key methods needed for ultra-precise nanotechnology and the upcoming quantum technology of macroscopic systems. An analysis of…

Thermodynamical fluctuations of temperature in mirrors of gravitational wave antennae are transformed through thermal expansion coefficient into additional noise. This source of noise, which may also be interpreted as fluctuations due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 V. B. Braginsky , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. P. Vyatchanin

We report on measurements performed at low temperatures on a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) under (capacitive) parametric pumping. The excitations and detection schemes are purely electrical, and enable in the present experiment the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 E. Collin , T. Moutonet , J. -S. Heron , O. Bourgeois , Yu. M. Bunkov , H. Godfrin

In the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman (AAV) weak measurement, it is assumed that the measuring device or the pointer is in a quantum mechanical pure state. In reality, however, it is often not the case. In this paper, we generalize the AAV weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 Young-Wook Cho , Hyang-Tag Lim , Young-Sik Ra , Yoon-Ho Kim

We study the temperature dependence of the underlying mechanisms related to the signal strength and imaging depth in photoacoustic imaging. The presented theoretical and experimental results indicate that imaging depth can be improved by…

We employ the technique of weak measurement in order to enable preservation of teleportation fidelity for two-qubit noisy channels. We consider one or both qubits of a maximally entangled state to undergo amplitude damping, and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-01 T. Pramanik , A. S. Majumdar

We describe a weak value inspired phase amplification technique in a Sagnac interferometer. We monitor the relative phase between two paths of a slightly misaligned interferometer by measuring the average position of a split-Gaussian mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Nathan S. Williams , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

Quantum optics dictates that amplification of a pure state by any linear deterministic amplifier always introduces noise in the signal and results in a mixed output state. However, it has recently been shown that noiseless amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 Mikko Partanen , Teppo Häyrynen , Jani Oksanen , Jukka Tulkki

The precision enhancement is demonstrated in an optical spatial measurement based on weak value amplification (WVA) system and split-like detection, by injecting a TEM$_{10}$ squeezed vacuum beam. It is the first time to experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Chaoxia Zhang , Yongchao Chen , Gang Chen , Hengxin Sun , Jing Zhang , Kui Liu , Rongguo Yang , Jiangrui Gao