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Nature Physics

Weak-value amplification of the nonlinear effect of a single photon

Matin Hallaji, Amir Feizpour, Greg Dmochowski, Josiah Sinclair, Aephraim M. Steinberg

Published Feb 27, 2017• 118 citations
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10.1038/nphys4040

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