English
Related papers

Related papers: Approaching quantum-limited metrology with imperfe…

200 papers

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 (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

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

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) 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 (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

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

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…

Most studies for postselected weak measurement in optomechanical system focus on using a single photon as a measured system. However, we find that using weak coherent light instead of a single photon can also amplify the mirror's position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Gang Li , Wen Yang

The novel weak-value-amplification (WVA) scheme of precision metrology is deeply rooted in the quantum nature of destructive interference between the pre- and post-selection states. And, an alternative version, termed as joint WVA (JWVA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jialin Li , Yazhi Niu , Xinyi Wang , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

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

We propose a new framework combining weak measurement and second-order correlated technique. The theoretical analysis shows that WVA experiment can also be implemented by a second-order correlated system. We then build two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ting Cui , Jing-Zheng Huang , Xiang Liu , Gui-Hua Zeng

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 analytically and numerically investigate the performance of weak-value amplification (WVA) and related parameter estimation methods in the presence of temporally correlated noise. WVA is a special instance of a general measurement…

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

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

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

The implementation of weak-value amplification requires the pre- and post-selection of states of a quantum system, followed by the observation of the response of the meter, which interacts weakly with the system. Data acquisition from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Bié Alves , B. M. Escher , R. L. de Matos Filho , N. Zagury , L. Davidovich

Weak-value amplification (WVA) has recently become an important technique for parameter estimation, owing to its ability to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by amplifying extremely small signals with proper postselection strategies. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Fei Li , Jingzheng Huang , Guihua Zeng

We report a quantitative evaluation of weak-value amplification (WVA) for longitudinal phase measurements using Allan variance analysis. Building on a recent double-slit interferometry experiment with real weak values [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jing-Hui Huang , Xiang-Yun Hu
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›