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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

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

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

Postselected weak measurement has aroused broad interest for its distinctive ability to amplify small physical quantities. However, the low postselection efficiency to obtain a large weak value has been a big obstacle to its application in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

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

A new weak measurement procedure is introduced for finite samples which yields accurate weak values that are outside the range of eigenvalues and which do not require an exponentially rare ensemble. This procedure provides a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeff Tollaksen

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

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

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

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

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…

The viability of quantum communication schemes rely on sending quantum states of light over long distances. However, transmission loss can degrade the signal strength, adding noise. Heralded noiseless amplification of a quantum signal can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Joseph Ho , Allen Boston , Matthew Palsson , Geoff Pryde

Hyperentanglement --- simultaneous entanglement between multiple degrees of freedom of two or more systems --- has been used to enhance quantum information tasks such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. P. Walborn , A. H. Pimentel , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

A modified-weak-value-amplification(MWVA) technique of measuring the mirror's velocity based on the Vernier-effect has been proposed. We have demonstrated with sensitivity-enhanced and the higher signal-to-noise ratio(${\rm SNR}$) by using…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-13 Jing-Hui Huang , Fei-Fan He , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

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

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

The weak-value (WV) measurement proposed by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman (AAV) has attracted a great deal of interest in connection with quantum metrology. In this work, we extend the analysis beyond the AAV limit and obtain a few main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jianhua Ren , Lupei Qin , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

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 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 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