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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

The paper demonstrates that negative refractive index can be achieved via tuning the tunneling rate between a double quantum dots(QDs) system by applying a bias voltage, and a pulsed laser. As the bias voltage being changed, the refraction…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-08 Shun-Cai Zhao , Xiao-fan Qian , Ya-Ping Zhang , Yong-An Zhang

Nature sets fundamental limits regarding how accurate the amplification of analog signals may be. For instance, a linear amplifier unavoidably adds some noise which amounts to half a photon at best. While for most applications much higher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 S. Jebari , F. Blanchet , A. Grimm , D. Hazra , R. Albert , P. Joyez , D. Vion , D. Esteve , F. Portier , M. Hofheinz

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

So far, quantum-limited power meters are not available in the microwave domain, hindering measurement of photon number in itinerant quantum states. On the one hand, single photon detectors accurately detect single photons, but saturate as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Romain Albert , Joël Griesmar , Florian Blanchet , Ulrich Martel , Nicolas Bourlet , Max Hofheinz

First, a misconception about the spectrum of a confined particle is evidentiated. Then, the results are shown to be incorrect by means of a counter-example, an explicit preparation for the probe is given that yields an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. Di Lorenzo

Amplifying the phonon signal in a semiconductor dark matter detector can be accomplished by operating at high voltage bias and converting the electrostatic potential energy into Luke-Neganov phonons. This amplification method has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Pyle , D. A. Bauer , B. Cabrera , J. Hall , R. W. Schnee , R. Basu Thakur , S. Yellin

We present an investigation into the tilt sensitivity of the canonical, optical, weak-value amplification device (COWVAD), introduced by Duck, Stevenson, and Sudarshan in 1989, for potential application in a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Garrett Josemans , Benjamin Baldwin , John E. Gray , Patrick Graves , Kevin Bertschinger

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

When the weak value of a projector is 1, a quantum system behaves as in that eigenstate with probability 1. By definition, however, the weak value may take an anomalous value lying outside the range of probability like -1. From the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

Quantum state reconstruction involves measurement devices that are usually described by idealized models, but not known in full detail in experiments. For weak propagating microwaves, the detection process requires linear amplifiers which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 E. P. Menzel , F. Deppe , M. Mariantoni , M. Á. Araque Caballero , A. Baust , T. Niemczyk , E. Hoffmann , A. Marx , E. Solano , R. Gross

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

The ability to post-select the outcomes of an experiment is a useful theoretical concept and experimental tool. In the context of weak measurements post-selection can lead to surprising results such as complex weak values outside the range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 Dawei Lu , Aharon Brodutch , Jun Li , Hang Li , Raymond Laflamme

We study the amplification of weak magnetic field with Weak-value technique based on Faraday magneto-optic effect. By using a different scheme to perform the Sagnac interferometer with the probe in momentum space, we have demonstrated the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Jing-Hui Huang , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Given the state-of-the-art optics, the optical losses define the lower bound of the best possible quantum-limited detector sensitivity. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Teng Zhang , Joe Bentley , Haixing Miao

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…

We investigate the impact of dissipation on weak measurements. While weak measurements have been successful in signal amplification, dissipation can compromise their usefulness. More precisely, we show that in systems with non-degenerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , John Martin , Yves Caudano

Weak values and measurements have been proposed as means to achieve dramatic enhancements in metrology based on the greatly increased range of possible measurement outcomes. Unfortunately, the very large values of measurement outcomes occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Lijian Zhang , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

The reconstruction of quantum states from a sufficient set of experimental data can be achieved with arbitrarily weak measurement interactions. Since such weak measurements have negligible back-action, the quantum state reconstruction is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Holger F. Hofmann

Quantum measurement is one of the most fascinating and discussed phenomena in quantum physics, due to the impact on the system of the measurement action and the resulting interpretation issues. Scholars proposed weak measurements to amplify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , Riccardo Muolo , Yves Caudano , Timoteo Carletti