Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Weak measurements, weak values, and entanglement

Jeff Tollaksen, Debabrata Ghoshal

Published Apr 27, 2007• 4 citations

Abstract

As a resource, quantum entanglement provides enormous power to quantum information processing and quantum communication. We focus on new properties of entanglement as revealed by quantum weak measurements. Weak measurements are performed between a pre-selected and post-selected states, one, or both or which are entangled.

DOI: 10.1117/12.719534

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