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In the conventional formulation, it is broadly accepted that simultaneous measurability and commutativity of observables are equivalent. However, several objections have been claimed that there are cases in which even nowhere commuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Masanao Ozawa

The variance of an arbitrary pointer observable is considered for the general case that a complex weak value is measured using a complex valued pointer state. For the typical cases where the pointer observable is either its position or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. D. Parks , J. E. Gray

Possible theoretical frameworks for measurement of (arrival) time in the nonrelativistic quantum mechanics are reviewed. It is argued that the ambiguity between indirect measurements by a suitably introduced time operator and direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piret Kuusk , Madis Koiv

The time derivative of a physical property often gives rise to another meaningful property. Since weak values provide empirical insights that cannot be derived from expectation values, this paper explores what physical properties can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Xavier Oriols

The weak value of an observable is experimentally accessible by weak measurements as theoretically analyzed by Aharonov et al. and recently experimentally demonstrated. We introduce a weak operator associated with the weak values and give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

A theory is developed which attempts to reconcile the measurements of nonlocal quantum observables with special relativity and quantum mechanics. The collapse of a wave function, which coincides with a nonlocal measurement by some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

We consider the problem of measurement using the Lindblad equation, which allows the introduction of time in the interaction between the measured system and the measurement apparatus. We use analytic results, valid for weak…

While there is a rigorously proven relationship about uncertainties intrinsic to any quantum system, often referred to as "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle," Heisenberg originally formulated his ideas in terms of a relationship between…

Given a multi-index sequence $\mu_{\mathbf{k}}$, $\mathbf{k} = (k_1,..., k_n) \in \mathbb{N}_0^n$, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a regular Borel polymeasure $\gamma$ on the unit interval $I= [0,1]$ such…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-15 A. Ibort , P. Linares , J. G. Llavona

Weak convergence of probability measures is one of the most important topics in the field probability and statistics. In this survey paper, we look at weak convergence of probability measures from the topological vector space point of view.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Liang Hong

Weak convergence of inertial iterative method for solving variational inequalities is the focus of this paper. The cost function is assumed to be non-Lipschitz and monotone. We propose a projection-type method with inertial terms and give…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Yekini Shehu , Olaniyi. S. Iyiola

Unlike the real part of the generalized weak value of an observable, which can in a restricted sense be operationally interpreted as an idealized conditioned average of that observable in the limit of zero measurement disturbance, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 J. Dressel , A. N. Jordan

We study the first detected recurrence time problem of continuous-time quantum walks on graphs. While previous works have employed projective measurements to determine the first return time, we implement a protocol based on weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Tim Heine , Eli Barkai , Klaus Ziegler , Sabine Tornow

This paper puts forward a broad critical analysis of the concept of physical time. Clock effect is conceived as a consequence of the variation of the gravitational or pseudo gravitational potential, and it is remarked that only some real…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Claudio Borghi

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

We derive schemes to measure the so-called weak values of quantum system observables by coupling of the system to a qubit meter system. We highlight, in particular, the meaning of the imaginary part of the weak values, and show how it can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shengjun Wu , Klaus Mølmer

Weak amplification is a signal enhancement technique which is used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined because of technical limitations. It is based on the existence of a special type of interaction which couples a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan P. Torres , Graciana Puentes , Nathaniel Hermosa , Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

A while loop tests a termination condition on every iteration. On a quantum computer, such measurements perturb the evolution of the algorithm. We define a while loop primitive using weak measurements, offering a trade-off between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Pablo Andrés-Martínez , Chris Heunen

Aharonov's weak value amplification realized via weak measurement provides a versatile means to measure physical parameters with high accuracy, similar to quantum resonance epitomized by the Rabi and Ramsey resonances. The similarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Daiki Ueda , Izumi Tsutsui

In this chapter we offer an introduction to weak values from a three-fold perspective: first, outlining the protocols that enable their experimental determination; next, deriving their correlates in the quantum formalism and, finally,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Xabier Oianguren-Asua , Albert Solé , Carlos F. Destefani , Xavier Oriols