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Weak-value amplification of photon-number operators in the optomechanical interaction
摘要： An experimental proposal is presented in which dark port postselection together with weak measurements are used to enlarge the radiation pressure effect of a single photon on a mechanical oscillator placed in the middle of a Fabry-Pérot cavity and initialized in the ground state. By preparing and postselecting the photon (the system) in two quasiorthogonal states, the weak value of the radiation force operator can lie outside the eigenvalue spectrum, producing a large shift on the wave function of the mechanical oscillator (the measuring device) in the position representation. Consequently, the effect of a single photon on the average position of the oscillator can be amplified as compared to the effect caused by a photon without postselection, i.e., only preselected. The strong measurement scenario is also analyzed. In this case, a higher amplification effect is achieved and the mean position of the oscillator can reach the level of the zero-point fluctuations, but the postselection probabilities are smaller. Finally, the situation in which the oscillator starts in a thermal equilibrium state is studied. In this case, the amplification of the average position remains the same, i.e., proportional to the weak value, but the signal-to-noise ratio is reduced by a factor that depends on the average number of thermal phonons.
关键词： weak measurements,weak-value amplification,optomechanics,postselection,radiation pressure
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Hard limits on the postselectability of optical graph states
摘要： Coherent control of large entangled graph states enables a wide variety of quantum information processing tasks, including error-corrected quantum computation. The linear optical approach offers excellent control and coherence, but today most photon sources and entangling gates—required for the construction of large graph states—are probabilistic and rely on postselection. In this work, we provide proofs and heuristics to aid experimental design using postselection. We introduce a versatile design rule for postselectable experiments: drawn as a graph, with qubit as vertices and gates and photon-pair sources as edges, an experiment may only contain cycles with an odd number of sources. We analyse experiments that use photons from postselected photon-pair sources, and lower bound the number of accessible classes of graph state entanglement in the non-degenerate case—graph state entanglement classes that contain a tree are are always accessible. The proportion of graph states accessible by postselection shrinks rapidly, however. We list accessible classes for various resource states up to 9 qubits. Finally, we apply these methods to near-term multi-photon experiments.
关键词： photon sources,entanglement,graph states,linear optical quantum computing,postselection,numerical methods,photonic experiment design
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46