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Seeing opportunity in every difficulty : protecting information with weak value techniques

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Knee, George C. and Briggs, G. Andrew D. (2018) Seeing opportunity in every difficulty : protecting information with weak value techniques. Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations, 5 (3). pp. 505-517. doi:10.1007/s40509-018-0164-z ISSN 2196-5609.

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Abstract

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 deflections in otherwise unperturbed variables: this motivates investigation of the potential benefits of the protocol in precision metrology. We present a visual interpretation of weak value experiments in phase space, enabling an evaluation of the effects of three types of detector noise as ‘Fisher information efficiency’ functions. These functions depend on the marginal distribution of the Wigner function of the ‘meter’, and give a unified view of the weak value protocol as a way of protecting Fisher information from detector imperfections. This approach explains why weak value techniques are more effective for avoiding detector saturation than for mitigating detector jitter or pixelation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Wigner distribution, Quantum theory, Metrology, Noise
Journal or Publication Title: Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 2196-5609
Official Date: September 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
September 2018Published
14 May 2018Available
23 April 2018Accepted
Volume: 5
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 505-517
DOI: 10.1007/s40509-018-0164-z
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 14 September 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 17 September 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDRoyal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000700

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