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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

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

Weak-value amplification (WVA) is a metrological protocol that effectively amplifies ultra-small physical effects, making it highly applicable in the fields of quantum sensing and metrology. However, the amplification effect is achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang

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

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a technique in which one can magnify the apparent strength of a measurement signal. Some have claimed that WVA can outperform more conventional measurement schemes in parameter estimation. Nonetheless, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Jérémie Harris , Robert W. Boyd , Jeff S. Lundeen

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

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…

We report a quantitative evaluation of weak-value amplification (WVA) for longitudinal phase measurements using Allan variance analysis. Building on a recent double-slit interferometry experiment with real weak values [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jing-Hui Huang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Among the known resources of quantum metrology, one of the most practical and efficient is squeezing. Squeezed states of atoms and light improve the sensing of the phase, magnetic field, polarization, mechanical displacement. They promise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Gaetano Frascella , Sascha Agne , Farid Ya. Khalili , Maria V. Chekhova

Most studies for postselected weak measurement in optomechanical system focus on using a single photon as a measured system. However, we find that using weak coherent light instead of a single photon can also amplify the mirror's position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Gang Li , Wen Yang

We experimentally realize a great precision enhancement in the small tilt measurement by using a Sagnac interferometer and balanced homodyne detection (BHD) of high-order optical modes, together with the weak value amplification (WVA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 ChaoXia Zhang , YongLang Lai , RongGuo Yang , Kui Liu , Jing Zhang , HengXin Sun , JiangRui Gao

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

The novel weak-value-amplification (WVA) scheme of precision metrology is deeply rooted in the quantum nature of destructive interference between the pre- and post-selection states. And, an alternative version, termed as joint WVA (JWVA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jialin Li , Yazhi Niu , Xinyi Wang , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

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

Quantum enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to improve the sensitivity of a measurement. For enhanced mechanical displacement sensing, squeezed states of light have been shown to reduce the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Jeremy B. Clark , Florent Lecocq , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado , John D. Teufel

It has been predicted and experimentally demonstrated that by injecting squeezed light into an optomechanical device it is possible to enhance the precision of a position measurement. Here, we present a fundamentally different approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 V. Peano , H. G. L. Schwefel , Ch. Marquardt , F. Marquardt

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…

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

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum state is injected into the usually unused input port. Here, we specifically investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Weyrauch , Volodymyr G. Voronov

Cavity optomechanical (COM) sensors, enhanced by quantum squeezing or entanglement, have become powerful tools for measuring ultra-weak forces with high precision and sensitivity. However, these sensors usually rely on linear COM couplings,…

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