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We measure a transverse momentum kick in a Sagnac interferometer using weak-value amplification with two postselections. The first postselection is controlled by a polarization dependent phase mismatch between both paths of a Sagnac…

While significant advancements have been made in weak magnetic field detection, conventional high-sensitivity techniques are often limited by requirements for cryogenic operation or bulky setups. In this work, we develop a sensitive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Fan Yang , Xudong Wang , Lijun Yan , Yue Zhao , Jinwei Rao , Lihui Bai , Shishen Yan

The technique of almost-balanced weak values amplification (ABWV) was recently proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116: 100803 (2016)]. We demonstrate this technique using a modified Sagnac interferometer, where the counter-propagating beams are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Wei-Tao Liu , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Gerardo I. Viza , John C. Howell

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 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

Due to the reduced probability of successful post-selection, the weak-value amplification seems to be unavailable for the parameter-estimation. Here, we show theoretically that, some effects due to the weak interactions present only in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Miao Zhang

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 measurement amplification, which is considered as a very promising scheme in precision measurement, has been applied to various small physical quantities estimation. Since many quantities can be converted to phase signal, it is thus…

A general approach to the measurement of an observable with pre- and post-selection is presented. The limit of weak measurement is studied in detail, and it is shown that the phase of the probe, including a Hamiltonian contribution to it,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-19 Antonio Di Lorenzo , J. Carlos Egues

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a metrological protocol that amplifies ultra-small physical effects. However, the amplified outcomes necessarily occur with highly suppressed probabilities, leading to the extensive debate on whether the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Liang Xu , Zexuan Liu , Animesh Datta , George C. Knee , Jeff S. Lundeen , Yan-qing Lu , Lijian Zhang

The amplification obtained using weak values is quantified through a detailed investigation of the signal to noise ratio for an optical beam deflection measurement. We show that for a given deflection, input power and beam radius, the use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-14 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

The crucial limitation of improving the sensitivity of the detection of weak magnetic fields is the unavoidable measurement noise. In this paper, we propose a scheme to achieve precise sensing robust against additional noise by employing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Zheng Liu , Yu-qiang Liu , Zi-yi Mai , Yi-jia Yang , Nan-nan Zhou , Chang-shui Yu

In a weak measurement with post-selection, a measurement value, called the weak value, can be amplified beyond the eigenvalues of the observable. However, there are some controversies whether the weak value amplification is practically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

Single-mode high-index-contrast waveguides have been ubiquitously exploited in optical, microwave, and phononic structures for achieving enhanced wave-matter interactions. Although micro-scale optomechanical and electro-optical devices have…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-05 Na Zhu , Xufeng Zhang , Xu Han , Chang-Ling Zou , Hong X. Tang

Weak measurement enables faithful amplification and high precision measurement of small physical parameters and is under intensive investigation as an effective tool in metrology and for addressing foundational questions in quantum…

Constructing an ontology for quantum theory is challenging, in part due to unavoidable measurement back-action. The Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman weak measurement formalism provides a method to predict measurement results (weak values) in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Josiah Sinclair , David Spierings , Aharon Brodutch , Aephraim M. Steinberg

We propose the difference weak measurement scheme, and illustrate its advantages for measuring small longitude phase-shift in high precision. Compared to the standard interferometry and standard weak measurement schemes, the proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jing-Zheng Huang , Chen Fang , Guihua Zeng

We present a weak measurement protocol that permits a sensitive estimation of angular rotations based on the concept of weak-value amplification. The shift in the state of a pointer, in both angular position and the conjugate orbital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Omar S. Magana-Loaiza , Mohammad Mirhosseini , Brandon Rodenburg , Robert W. Boyd

Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for measuring a weak MHz electric field signal is limited by the…

A protocol employing weak values (WVs) to obtain ultra sensitive amplification of weak signals in the context of a solid state setup is proposed. We consider an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer where both the orbital and the spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen