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arxiv: 1604.02197 · v5 · pith:6CWU3GCTnew · submitted 2016-04-07 · 🪐 quant-ph

Understanding weak values without new probability theory

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keywords valueweakpost-selectionexpectationgenerallangleprobabilitytheory
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The physical meaning of weak values and measurements can be completely understood with Born rule and the general probability theory. It is known that the weak value of an observable $\hat A$ with post-selection $\langle F|$ may be out of the eigenvalue range of $\hat A$. This is because the weak value of $\hat A$ with the post-selection is, in general, not the expectation value of $\hat A$, but the expectation value of $\hat A| F\rangle\langle F|$ boosted by the post-selection.

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