Suppressing technical noises in weak measurement by entanglement

TL;DR

This paper reviews an entanglement-assisted protocol for postselected weak measurement, demonstrating its robustness against readout errors and showing that entanglement can significantly improve measurement accuracy and Fisher information retention.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the entanglement-enhanced protocol's robustness to readout errors and introduces a majority vote scheme to further mitigate these errors.

Findings

Entanglement reduces measurement inaccuracy caused by readout errors.

The protocol maintains Fisher information even with high readout error probabilities.

Majority vote postselection nearly preserves Fisher information under noise.

Abstract

Postselected weak measurement has aroused broad interest for its distinctive ability to amplify small physical quantities. However, the low postselection efficiency to obtain a large weak value has been a big obstacle to its application in practice, since it may waste resources, and reduce the measurement precision. An improved protocol was proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030401 (2014)] to make the postselected weak measurement dramatically more efficient by using entanglement. Such a protocol can increase the Fisher information of the measurement to approximately saturate the well-known Heisenberg limit. In this paper, we review the entanglement-assisted protocol of postselected weak measurement in detail, and study its robustness against technical noises. We focus on readout errors. Readout errors can greatly degrade the performance of postselected weak measurement, especially when the readout error probability is comparable to the postselection probability. We show that entanglement can significantly reduce the two main detrimental effects of readout errors: inaccuracy in the measurement result, and the loss of Fisher information. We extend the protocol by introducing a majority vote scheme to postselection to further compensate for readout errors. With a proper threshold, almost no Fisher information will be lost. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of entanglement in protecting postselected weak measurement against readout errors.