Weak measurement with orthogonal preselection and postselection
Weak measurement with orthogonal preselection and postselection
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.86.022112
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发表时间:
2012-08-17
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Chen, Zeng-Bing
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作者:
Pang, Shengshi;Wu, Shengjun;Chen, Zeng-Bing
Weak measurement is a novel quantum measurement scheme, which is usually characterized by the weak value formalism. To guarantee the validity of the weak value formalism, the fidelity between the preselection and the postselection should not be too small generally. In this work, we study the weak measurement on a qubit system with exactly or asymptotically orthogonal pre- and postselections. We shall establish a general rigorous framework for the weak measurement beyond the weak value formalism, and obtain the average output of a weak measurement when the pre- and postselections are exactly orthogonal. We shall also study the asymptotic behavior of a weak measurement in the limiting process that the pre- and postselections tend to be orthogonal.