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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

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

It is often said that measuring a system's position must disturb the complementary property, momentum, by some minimum amount due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Using a "weak-measurement", this disturbance can be reduced. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 G. S. Thekkadath , F. Hufnagel , J. S. Lundeen

Conventional quantum mechanics describes a pre- and post-selected system in terms of virtual (Feynman) paths via which the final state can be reached. In the absence of probabilities, a weak measurement (WM) determines the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 D. Sokolovski

Precision measurements of ultra-small linear velocities of one of the mirrors in a Michelson interferometer are performed using two different weak-values techniques. We show that the technique of Almost-Balanced Weak Values (ABWV) offers…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-14 Julián Martínez-Rincón , Zekai Chen , John C. Howell

The advantages of weak measurements, and especially measurements of imaginary weak values, for precision enhancement, are discussed. A situation is considered in which the initial state of the measurement device varies randomly on each run,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Yaron Kedem

The weak value exhibits numerous intriguing characteristics, such as values outside the operator spectrum, leading to unexpected phenomena. Nevertheless, the measurement protocol used for measuring the weak value has been the subject of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Zohar Schwartzman-Nowik , Dorit Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen

Weak measurement has garnered widespread interest for its ability to amplify small physical effects at the cost of low detection probabilities. Previous entanglement and recycling techniques enhance postselection efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Zi-Rui Zhong , Xia-lin Su , Xiang-Ming Hu , Qing-lin Wu

Quantum metrology aims to use quantum resources to improve the precision of measurement. Quantum criticality has been presented as a novel and efficient resource. Generally, protocols of criticality-based quantum metrology often work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Wan-Ting He , Cong-Wei Lu , Yi-Xuan Yao , Hai-Yuan Zhu , Qing Ai

Equilibrium probes have been widely used in various noisy quantum metrology schemes. However, such an equilibrium-probe-based metrology scenario severely suffers from the low-temperature-error divergence problem in the weak-coupling regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

Weak measurements offer the possibility of tuning the information acquired on a system, hence the imposed disturbance. This suggests that it could be a useful tool for multi-parameter estimation, when two parameters can not be measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Matteo Altorio , Marco G. Genoni , Mihai D. Vidrighin , Fabrizia Somma , Marco Barbieri

We propose to use weak measurements away from the weak-value amplification regime to carry out precision measurements of time delays of light. Our scheme is robust to several sources of noise that are shown to only limit the relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Grégory Strübi , C. Bruder

Weak measurement is a novel technique for parameter estimation with higher precision. In this paper we develop a general theory for the parameter estimation based on weak measurement technique with arbitrary postselection. The previous weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Yang Yu , Qin-Zheng Li , Guihua Zeng

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

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

A large literature has grown up around the proposed use of 'weak measurements' (i.e., unsharp measurements followed by post-selection) to allegedly provide information about hidden ontological features of quantum systems. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 R. E. Kastner

Weak measurement (WM) with state pre- and post-selection can amplify otherwise undetectable small signals and thus promise great potentials in precision measurements. Although frequency measurements offer the hitherto highest precision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Weizhi Qu , Jian Sun , Shenchao Jin , Liang Jiang , Jianming Wen , Yanhong Xiao

The technical merits of weak value amplification techniques are analyzed. We consider models of several different types of technical noise in an optical context and show that weak value amplification techniques (which only use a small…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-01 Andrew N. Jordan , Julián Martínez-Rincón , John C. Howell

Weak measurements are a new tool for characterizing post-selected quantum systems during their evolution. Weak measurement was originally formulated in terms of von Neumann interactions which are practically available for only the simplest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. S. Lundeen , K. J. Resch

In order to analyze joint measurability of given measurements, we introduce a Hermitian operator-valued measure, called $W$-measure, such that it has marginals of positive operator-valued measures (POVMs). We prove that ${W}$-measure is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jeongwoo Jae , Kyunghyun Baek , Junghee Ryu , Jinhyoung Lee