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Interaction-free measurement (IFM), just as its name implies, can enable one to detect an object without interacting with it, i.e., substantially reducing the damage to the object. With the help of quantum channel theory, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 You Zhou , Man-Hong Yung

Interaction-free measurement (IFM) is a promising technique for low-dose detection and imaging, offering the unique advantage of probing an object without absorption of the interrogating photons. We propose an experiment to demonstrate IFM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Ron Cohen , Sharon Shwartz , Eliahu Cohen

Although interference is a classical-wave phenomenon, the superposition principle, which underlies interference of individual particles, is at the heart of quantum physics. An interaction-free measurements (IFM) harnesses the wave-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiao-song Ma , Xiang Guo , Carsten Schuck , King Y. Fong , Liang Jiang , Hong X. Tang

In this paper, we consider interaction-free measurement (IFM) with imperfect interaction. In the IFM proposed by Kwiat et al., we assume that interaction between an absorbing object and a probe photon is imperfect, so that the photon is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroo Azuma

Three different implementations of interaction-free measurements (IFMs) in solid-state nanodevices are discussed. The first one is based on a series of concatenated Mach-Zehnder interferometers, in analogy to optical-IFM setups. The second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Chirolli , E. Strambini , V. Giovannetti , F. Taddei , V. Piazza , R. Fazio , F. Beltram , G. Burkard

In the early 1990's A. Elitzur and L. Vaidman proposed an interaction free measurement (IFM) that allows researchers to find infinitely fragile objects without destroying them. But Elitzur-Vaidman IFM has been used only to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adonai S. Sant'Anna , Otavio Bueno

Semi-transparent mirrors are standard elements in light optics for splitting light beams or creating two versions of the same image. Such mirrors do not exist in electron optics, although they could be beneficial in existing techniques such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Yujia Yang , Chung-Soo Kim , Richard G. Hobbs , Pieter Kruit , Karl K. Berggren

In this paper, we propose a method for implementing the interaction-free measurement (IFM) with mesoscopic devices fabricated on a high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, where a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system is buried, at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Hiroo Azuma

Quantum imaging, one of the pillars of quantum technologies, is well-suited to study sensitive samples which require low-light conditions, like biological tissues. In this context, interaction-free measurements (IFM) allow us infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Alexandra Maria Palici , Tudor-Alexandru Isdraila , Stefan Ataman , Radu Ionicioiu

Quantum mechanics predicts that our physical reality is influenced by events that can potentially happen but factually do not occur. Interaction-free measurements (IFMs) exploit this counterintuitive influence to detect the presence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 J. Peise , B. Lücke , L. Pezzè , F. Deuretzbacher , W. Ertmer , J. Arlt , A. Smerzi , L. Santos , C. Klempt

The complex range of interactions between electrons and electromagnetic fields gave rise to countless scientific and technological advances. A prime example is photon-induced nearfield electron microscopy (PINEM), enabling the detection of…

The phenomenon of interaction-free measurement (IFM) enables the probabilistic detection of an absorbing object with reduced photon absorption. We report the experimental implementation of a simultaneous IFM of multiple objects using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Sara Franco , Anita Camillini , Ernesto F. Galvão

We use a novel scanning electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a conventional transmission electron microscope to perform inelastic interferometric imaging with free electrons. An electron wave function is prepared in two paths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , F. Javier García de Abajo , Benjamin J. McMorran

We discuss the effect of semitransparency in a quantum-Zeno-like interaction-free measurement setup, a quantum-physics based approach that might significantly reduce sample damage in imaging and microscopy. With an emphasis on applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Sebastian Thomas , Christoph Kohstall , Pieter Kruit , Peter Hommelhoff

Instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) of microwave signals is a fundamental functionality for applications ranging from electronic warfare to biomedical technology. Photonic techniques, and nonlinear optical interactions in particular,…

We propose a Quantum Field Theory description of beams on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer and apply the method to describe Interaction Free Measurements (IFMs), concluding that there is a change of momentum of the fields in IFMs. Analysing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Filipe Barroso , Orfeu Bertolami

Feynman once asked physicists to build better electron microscopes to be able to watch biology at work. While electron microscopes can now provide atomic resolution, electron beam induced specimen damage precludes high resolution imaging of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Thomas Juffmann , Stewart A. Koppell , Brannon B. Klopfer , Colin Ophus , Robert Glaeser , Mark A. Kasevich

The interaction-free measurements proposed by Elitzur and Vaidman (EV IFM) is a quantum mechanical method to find an object that interacts with other systems solely via its explosion without exploding it. In this method, an object can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-21 L. Vaidman

Using the complementary wave- and particle-like natures of photons, it is possible to make ``interaction-free'' measurements where the presence of an object can be determined with no photons being absorbed. We investigated several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew G. White , Jay R. Mitchell , Olaf Nairz , Paul G. Kwiat

Sensing with undetected photons enables the measurement of absorption and phase shifts at wavelengths different from those detected. Here, we experimentally map the balance and loss parameter space in a non-degenerate nonlinear…

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