Scheme for the protective measurement of a single photon using a tunable quantum Zeno effect
arXiv:1804.03253 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.042104
Abstract
This paper presents a proof-of-principle scheme for the protective measurement of a single photon. In this scheme, the photon is looped arbitrarily many times through an optical stage that implements a weak measurement of a polarization observable followed by a strong measurement protecting the state. The ability of this scheme to realize a large number of such interaction-protection steps means that the uncertainty in the measurement result can be drastically reduced while maintaining a sufficient probability for the photon to survive the measurement.
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