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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

We apply the combined technique of postselected amplification and photon-recycling to an optical setup of magnetic field precision measurement. We propose two recycling schemes and carry out analytic expressions for the amplified signal and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yazhi Niu , Jialin Li , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

We study the detection capability of the weak-value amplification on the basis of the statistical hypothesis testing. We propose a reasonable testing method in the physical and statistical senses to find that the weak measurement with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Yuki Susa , Saki Tanaka

The weak value amplification technique has been proved useful for precision metrology in both theory and experiment. To explore the ultimate performance of weak value amplification for multi-parameter estimation, we investigate a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Chen Fang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng

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

The weak measurements based amplification of ultra-small phase was proposed in our previous work. Due to the technical imperfections, the ability of amplification is usually limited in practice. Here we introduce the concept of cascaded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

The advantages of weak measurements, and especially measurements of imaginary weak values, for precision enhancement, are discussed. A situation is considered in which the initial state of the measurement device varies randomly on each run,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Yaron Kedem

By choosing more orthogonality between pre-selection and post-selection states, one can significantly improve the sensitivity in the general optical quantum metrology based on the weak-value amplification (WVA) approach. However, increasing…

While the novel applications of weak values have recently attracted wide attention, weak measurement, the usual way to extract weak values, suffers from risky approximations and severe quantum noises. In this paper, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Post-selected weak measurement has been widely used in experiments to observe weak effects in various physical systems. However, it is still unclear how large the amplification ability of a weak measurement can be and what determines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

A general formalism for joint weak measurements of a pair of complementary observables is given. The standard process of optical three-wave mixing in a nonlinear crystal (such as in parametric down-conversion) is suitable for such tasks. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Shengjun Wu , Marek Żukowski

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

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

We study the possibility of varying the measured lifetime of a decaying particle based on the technique of weak value amplification in which an additional filtering process called postselection is performed. Our analysis made in a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Yuichiro Mori , Izumi Tsutsui

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

The weak-value-amplification (WVA) technique has been extensively considered and debated in the field of quantum precision measurement, largely owing to the reduced Fisher information caused by the low probability of successful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yingxin Liu , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

The weak value exhibits numerous intriguing characteristics, such as values outside the operator spectrum, leading to unexpected phenomena. Nevertheless, the measurement protocol used for measuring the weak value has been the subject of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Dorit Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen

A mathematical extension of the weak value formalism to the simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters is presented in the context of an optical focused vector beam scatterometry experiment. In this example, preselection and…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-03 Anthony Vella , Stephen T. Head , Thomas G. Brown , Miguel A. Alonso

Weak value amplification is a classical phenomenon that can enhance the sensitivity of a measurement through clever use of interference. The most well-known paradigm of weak value amplification makes use of a Gaussian pulse, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Filippo M Miatto

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