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Weak value (WV) is a quantum mechanical measurement protocol, proposed by Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman. It consists of a weak measurement, which is weighed in, conditional on the outcome of a later, strong measurement. Here we define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Weak-value amplification (WVA) is a post-selection-based technique that amplifies weak physical signals by preparing nearly orthogonal pre- and post-selected quantum states. It is intrinsically limited by various kinds of technical noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Xiang-Yun Hu , Jing-Hui Huang , Fei-Fan He , Guang-Jun Wang , Adetunmise C. Dada

Weak-value-amplification permits small effects to be measured as observable changes at the sacrifice of power due to post-selection. The power recycling scheme has been proven to eliminate this inefficiency of the rare post-selection, thus…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-20 Zi-Rui Zhong , Wei-Jun Tan , Yue Chen , Qing-Lin Wu

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a technique in which one can magnify the apparent strength of a measurement signal. Some have claimed that WVA can outperform more conventional measurement schemes in parameter estimation. Nonetheless, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Jérémie Harris , Robert W. Boyd , Jeff S. Lundeen

We present a theoretical analysis for the metrology quality of joint weak measurements (JWM), in close comparison with the weak-value-amplification (WVA) technique. We point out that the difference probability function employed in the JWM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lupei Qin , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

The auto-correlative weak-value amplification (AWVA) technique demonstrates distinct advantages over standard weak-value amplification (SWVA) for quantum parameter estimation. To achieve enhanced precision in real-time parameter estimation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jing-Hui Huang , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

A protocol employing weak values (WVs) to obtain ultra sensitive amplification of weak signals in the context of a solid state setup is proposed. We consider an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer where both the orbital and the spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

The optical interferometry has been widely used in various high precision applications. Usually, the minimum precision of an interferometry is limited by various technique noises in practice. To suppress such kind of noises, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Guihua Zeng

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

Weak-value amplification (WVA) provides a way for amplified detection of a tiny physical signal at the expense of a lower detection probability. Despite this trade-off, due to its robustness against certain types of noise, WVA has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yosep Kim , Seung-Yeun Yoo , Yoon-Ho Kim

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 experimentally realize a great precision enhancement in the small tilt measurement by using a Sagnac interferometer and balanced homodyne detection (BHD) of high-order optical modes, together with the weak value amplification (WVA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 ChaoXia Zhang , YongLang Lai , RongGuo Yang , Kui Liu , Jing Zhang , HengXin Sun , JiangRui Gao

We propose the difference weak measurement scheme, and illustrate its advantages for measuring small longitude phase-shift in high precision. Compared to the standard interferometry and standard weak measurement schemes, the proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jing-Zheng Huang , Chen Fang , Guihua Zeng

Experiments based on free space platform have demonstrated that the weak value amplification (WVA) technique can provide high sensitivity and precision for optical sensing and metrology. To promote this technique for real-world…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-24 Han Wang , Jingzheng Huang , Chaozheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng

A weak value is an effective description of the influence of a pre and post-selected 'principal' system on another 'meter' system to which it is weakly coupled. Weak values can describe anomalously large deflections of the meter, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 George C. Knee , G. Andrew D. Briggs

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

We study the weak-value amplification (WVA) in a phase measurement with an optical interferometer in which shot noise limits the sensitivity. We compute the signal and the shot noise including the full-order interaction terms of the WVA,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kouji Nakamura , Masa-Katsu Fujimoto

Standard weak measurement with an assistant pointer and single weak interaction constrains measurement precision and quantity of interaction parameters, and a compelling characterization of quantum effect featuring weak-value amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanqiang Guo , Jianchao Zhang , Jiahui Hou , Xiaomin Guo , Liantuan Xiao

Weak amplification is a signal enhancement technique which is used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined because of technical limitations. It is based on the existence of a special type of interaction which couples a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan P. Torres , Graciana Puentes , Nathaniel Hermosa , Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

We examine the effect of different sources of technical noise on inverse weak value-based precision phase measurements. We find that this type of measurement is similarly robust to technical noise as related experiments in the weak value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Kevin Lyons , John C. Howell , Andrew N. Jordan