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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…

Weak measurement is unique in enabling measurements of non-commuting operators as well as otherwise-undetectable peculiar phenomena predicted by the Two-State-Vector-Formalism (TSVF). This article, the first in two parts, explores novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avshalom C. Elitzur

The application of postselection to a weak quantum measurement leads to the phenomenon of weak values. Expressed in units of the measurement strength, the displacement of a quantum coherent measuring device is ordinarily bounded by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 George C. Knee , Erik M. Gauger

In optical metrological protocols to measure physical quantities, it is, in principle, always beneficial to increase photon number to improve measurement precision. However, practical constraints prevent arbitrary increase of n due to the…

In this paper, we explore the possibilities of realizing weak value amplification (WVA) using purely atomic degrees of freedom. Our scheme identifies the internal electronic states and external motional states of a single trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Chun-wang Wu , Jie Zhang , Yi Xie , Bao-quan Ou , Ting Chen , Wei Wu , Ping-xing Chen

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

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

Weak measurement is an important technique for detecting the tiny spin-dependent splitting in photonic spin Hall effect. The weak measurement is only valid when the probe wavefunction remains almost undisturbed during the procedure of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shizhen Chen , Xinxing Zhou , Chengquan Mi , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

We consider the use of cyclic weak measurements to improve the sensitivity of weak-value amplification precision measurement schemes. Previous weak-value experiments have used only a small fraction of events, while discarding the rest…

The extraordinary concept of weak value amplification has attracted considerable attention for addressing foundational questions in quantum mechanics and for metrological applications in high precision measurement of small physical…

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

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

We propose a postselected amplification (PSA) scheme for phase shift measurement of optical coherent states when passing through the Mach-Zehnder-interferometer (MZI). Different from the usual weak-value-amplification (WVA) formulation, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 J. L. Li , Y. Z. Niu , L. P. Qin , X. Q. Li

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

We extend the idea of weak measurements to the general case, provide a complete treatment and obtain results for both the regime when the pre-selected and post-selected states (PPS) are almost orthogonal and the regime when they are exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shengjun Wu , Yang Li

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

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 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 investigated precision measurements in a two-level system coupled to a single-photon-added coherent state (SPACS) under postselection measurement. We analyzed strategies for improving measurement precision, including parameter estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yi-Fang Ren , Yusuf Turek