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Experiments based on free space platform have demonstrated that the weak value amplification (WVA) technique can provide high sensitivity and precision for optical sensing and metrology. To promote this technique for real-world…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-24 Han Wang , Jingzheng Huang , Chaozheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Guihua Zeng

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

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

To describe the pre- and post-selected quantum ensembles, a complex quantity called the weak value of an operator is used. The weak value is highly controversial due to the fact that it is not bounded by the possible eigenvalues of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Aiham M. Rostom

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

Post-selection strategies have been proposed with the aim of amplifying weak signals, which may help to overcome detection thresholds associated with technical noise in high-precision measurements. Here we use an optical setup to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 G. Bié Alves , A. Pimentel , M. Hor-Meyll , S. P. Walborn , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

The weak measurement proposed by Aharonov and his colleagues extracts information of a physical quantity of the system by the post selection as the shifts of the argument of the probe wavefunction. The shift is called the weak value and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yuki Susa , Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

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

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

In conventional measurement, to reach the greatest accuracy of parameter estimation, all samples must be measured since each independent sample contains the same quantum Fisher information. In postselected metrology, postselection can…

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

An experimental proposal is presented in which dark port post-selection together with weak measurements are used to enlarge the radiation pressure effect of a single photon on a mechanical oscillator placed in the middle of a Fabry-Perot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sergio Carrasco , Miguel Orszag

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

Recently, weak value $\rm A_w$ derived in the pre- and post-selected weak measurement has been shown to be powerful in measuring minute physical effects. In principle, the decrease in the post-selection probability will increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Jing-Hui Huang , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Weak force amplification describes the process of amplifying a faint low-frequency signal by means of an additional high-frequency modulation, which plays a vital role in quantum sensing and high-precision measurement. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Y. F. Li , Ze Wang , W. Y. Hu , Yan-Hui Zhou , Cheng Shang , and H. Z. Shen

We introduce a hybrid methodology that synergistically combines weak value amplification (WVA) and deep learning to suppress the limiting effects of residual timing jitter in pump-probe interferometry, achieved through simulations of…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jing-Hui Huang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Weak values arise in quantum theory when the result of a weak measurement is conditioned on a subsequent strong measurement. The majority of the trials are discarded, leaving only very few successful events. Intriguingly those can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 George C. Knee , Joshua Combes , Christopher Ferrie , Erik M. Gauger

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

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…

Postselected weak measurement is a useful protocol for amplifying weak physical effects. However, there has recently been controversy over whether it gives any advantage in precision. While it is now clear that retaining failed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun