Extraction of Product and Higher Moment Weak Values: Applications in Quantum State Reconstruction and Entanglement Detection

Abstract

Weak measurements introduced by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman (AAV) can provide informations about the system with minimal back action. Weak values of product observables (commuting) or higher moments of an observable are informationally important in the sense that they are useful to resolve some paradoxes, realize strange quantum effects, reconstruct density matrices, etc. In this work, we show that it is possible to access the higher moment weak values of an observable using weak values of that observable with pairwise orthogonal post-selections. Although the higher moment weak values of an observable are inaccessible with Gaussian pointer states, our method allows any pointer state. We have calculated product weak values in a bipartite system for any given pure and mixed pre selected states. Such product weak values can be obtained using only the measurements of local weak values (which are defined as single system weak values in a multi-partite system). As an application, we use higher moment weak values and product weak values to reconstruct unknown quantum states of single and bipartite systems, respectively. Further, we give a necessary separability criteria for finite dimensional systems using product weak values and certain class of entangled states violate this inequality by cleverly choosing the product observables and the post selections. By such choices, positive partial transpose (PPT) criteria can be achieved for these classes of entangled states. Robustness of our method which occurs due to inappropriate choices of quantum observables and noisy post-selections is also discussed here. Our method can easily be generalized to the multi-partite systems.

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