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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

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

Weak value (WV) is a quantum mechanical measurement protocol, proposed by Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman. It consists of a weak measurement, which is weighed in, conditional on the outcome of a later, strong measurement. Here we define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Nearly thirty years ago the possibility of anomalous weak amplfication (AWA) was revealed by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman [1]. Recently two papers presents two AWA schemes which are beyond the traditional proposal given by them [14, 15]. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Tao Wang , Rui Zhang , Gang Li , Xue-Mei Su

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

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

The technique of weak value amplification, proposed by Aharonov et al. in 1988, has been applied for various fields of physics for the purpose of precision measurement, which is made possible by exploiting the freedom of `postselection'…

The auto-correlative weak-value amplification (AWVA) technique demonstrates distinct advantages over standard weak-value amplification (SWVA) for quantum parameter estimation. To achieve enhanced precision in real-time parameter estimation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jing-Hui Huang , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

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

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

We present a theoretical analysis for the metrology quality of joint weak measurements (JWM), in close comparison with the weak-value-amplification (WVA) technique. We point out that the difference probability function employed in the JWM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lupei Qin , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li

In a quantum-noise limited system, weak-value amplification using post-selection normally does not produce more sensitive measurements than standard methods for ideal detectors: the increased weak value is compensated by the reduced power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Courtney Krafczyk , Andrew N. Jordan , Michael E. Goggin , Paul G. Kwiat

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

A weak value is an effective description of the influence of a pre and post-selected 'principal' system on another 'meter' system to which it is weakly coupled. Weak values can describe anomalously large deflections of the meter, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 George C. Knee , G. Andrew D. Briggs

Weak measurement [1,19] combined with quantum delayed-choice experiment that use quantum beam splitter instead of the beam splitter give rise to a surprising amplification effect, i.e., counterintuitive negative amplification effect. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Gang Li , Tao Wang , Ming-Yong Ye , and He-Shan Song

Weak measurements in combination with post-selection can give rise to a striking amplification effect (related to a large "weak value"). We show that this effect can be understood by viewing the initial state of the pointer as the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christoph Simon , Eugene S. Polzik

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

A two-step measurement protocol of a quantum system, known as weak value (WV), has been introduced more than two decades ago by Aharonov et al. [1], and has since been studied in various contexts. Here we discuss another two-step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Standard weak measurement with an assistant pointer and single weak interaction constrains measurement precision and quantity of interaction parameters, and a compelling characterization of quantum effect featuring weak-value amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Yanqiang Guo , Jianchao Zhang , Jiahui Hou , Xiaomin Guo , Liantuan Xiao

We study the possibility of varying the measured lifetime of a decaying particle based on the technique of weak value amplification in which an additional filtering process called postselection is performed. Our analysis made in a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Yuichiro Mori , Izumi Tsutsui