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

DOI10.1007/S40509-018-0164-ZMaRDI QIDQ1621574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors George C. Knee, G. Andrew D. Briggs

Publication date 9 November 2018

Published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03562, http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108372/1/WRAP-seeing-opportunity-every-difficulty-Knee-2018.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

technical noiseweak valuesWigner functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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.

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