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Frontiers in Optics

Visualizing Quantum State Rotations through Weak Measurements of Orbital Angular Momentum

Mehul Malik, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Martin P. J. Lavery, Jonathan Leach, Miles J. Padgett, Robert W. Boyd

Published Jan 1, 2013• 1 citation
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Abstract

Using the technique of direct measurement, we observe the action of the angular momentum operator as the generator of rotations. Our method employs weak measurements of orbital angular momentum and strong measurements of angular position.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2013.ftu1c.6

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