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By using both, the weak-value formulation as well as the standard probabilistic approach, we analyze the Hardy's experiment introducing a complex and dimensionless parameter ($\epsilon$) which eliminates the assumption of complete…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ivan Arraut

Weak measurements introduced by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman (AAV) can provide informations about the system with minimal back action. Weak values of product observables (commuting) or higher moments of an observable are informationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Sahil , Sohail , Subhrajit Modak , Sibasish Ghosh , Arun Kumar Pati

We extend the idea of weak measurements to the general case, provide a complete treatment and obtain results for both the regime when the pre-selected and post-selected states (PPS) are almost orthogonal and the regime when they are exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shengjun Wu , Yang Li

We test experimentally the quantum ``paradox'' proposed by Lucien Hardy in 1993 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1665 (1993)] by using single photons instead of photon pairs. This is achieved by addressing two compatible degrees of freedom of the same…

Hardy's paradox is analysed within Feynman's formulation of quantum mechanics. A transition amplitude is represented as a sum over virtual paths which different intermediate measurements convert into different sets of real pathways.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Sokolovski , I. Puerto Gimenez , R. Sala Mayato

The theory of weak measurement, proposed by Aharonov and coworkers, has been applied by Steinberg to the long-discussed traversal time problem. The uncertainty and ambiguity that characterize this concept from the perspective of von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Iannaccone

In the paper, using the language of spin-half particles, Hardy's paradox is examined within different semantics: a partial one, a many-valued one, and one defined as a set of weak values of projection operators. As it is shown in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Arkady Bolotin

In the weak measurement formalism of Y. Aharonov et al. the so-called weak value A_w of any observable A is generally a complex number. We derive a physical interpretation of its value in terms of the shift in the measurement pointer's mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard Jozsa

The weak value, introduced by Aharonov et al. to extend the conventional scope of physical observables in quantum mechanics, is an intriguing concept which sheds new light on quantum foundations and is also useful for precision measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Takuya Mori , Izumi Tsutsui

Using a recent reformulation of the analysis of nuclear parity-violation (PV) within the framework of effective field theory (EFT), we show how predictions for parity-violating observables in low-energy light hadronic systems can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Barry R. Holstein

Despite their important applications in metrology and in spite of numerous experimental demonstrations, weak measurements are still confusing for part of the community. This sometimes leads to unjustified criticism. Recent papers have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Eliahu Cohen

A Hardy-like version of the quantum pigeonhole paradox is proposed, which can also be considered as a special kind of Hardy's paradox. Besides an example induced from the minimal system, a general construction of this paradox from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Weidong Tang

The notion of weak measurement in quantum mechanics has gained a significant and wide interest in realizing apparently counterintuitive quantum effects. In recent times, several theoretical and experimental works have been reported for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Asmita Kumari , A. K. Pan , P. K. Panigrahi

Vaidman, Phys.Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013), has proposed a weak value criterion for the past of a quantum particle, and applied it to photons in a particular setup of nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers. From his analysis, he draws some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 B. E. Y. Svensson

This paper has a flaw in an argument that uses the weak-* convergence of measures. The paper was replaced by "Entropy and Its Variational Principle for Locally Compact Metrizable Systems", by the same authors.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-09 André Caldas , Mauro Patrão

In this paper we propose a setup for the weak measurement of photon arrival time. It is found that the weak values of this arrival time can lie far away from the expectation value, and in principle also in regions forbidden by special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Ahnert , M. C. Payne

In this paper we study Hardy and Poincar\'e inequalities and their weak versions for quadratic forms satisfying the first Beurling-Deny criterion. We employ these inequalities to establish a criticality theory for such forms.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Marcel Schmidt

In this, partly pedagogical review, I attempt to give a self-contained overview of the basis of (non-relativistic) QM measurement theory expressed in density matrix formalism. The focus is on applications to the theory of weak measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Bengt E. Y. Svensson

In their paper (arXiv:2402.09879), Aredes and Saldanha analyze several paradoxes related to weak values and present a "general argument" that aims to show that "realistic interpretations ...of weak values lead to inconsistencies". Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Juan José Seoane , Xabier Oianguren-Asua , Albert Solé , Xavier Oriols

Incompatible observables underlie pillars of quantum physics such as contextuality and entanglement. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a fundamental limitation on the measurement of the product of incompatible observables, a `joint'…