Interferometric weak value deflections: Quantum and classical treatments
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Interferometric weak value deflections: Quantum and classical treatments
Weak values [1] have presented or inspired intriguing possibilities for precision measurement. A recent example is by Hosten and Kwiat [2], where they were able to amplify the deflections arising from the spin Hall effect of light. The light fields used in their experiment, as well as in Ref. [3], were coherent quasiclassical fields and no apparent quantum mechanical system was employed in eith...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review A
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1050-2947,1094-1622
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.81.033813