====== Journal Club - Weak measurements ====== [[logo|{{:seminar.png?96x96 |}}]] * **Speaker: Ernesto Galvão (IF-UFF)**\\ * **16/09/2011 room A5-01, 11:00** \\ * **Topic: Weak measurements and implementations**\\ **Abstract:** I'll briefly review weak measurements, and then discuss a recent experimental measurement of the average trajectories of photons in a double-slit experiment. \\ References:\\ On weak measurements:\\ A time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics - Aharonov, Popescu, Tollaksen, Physics Today, November 2010, p. 27.\\ The Two-State Vector Formalism: an Updated Review - Yakir Aharonov and Lev Vaidman, arXiv:quant-ph/0105101v2\\ \\ The photonic experiment:\\ Observing the average trajectories of single photons in a two-slit interferometer - Kocsi et al (Steinberg group, Toronto), Science 332, 1170 (3 June 2011). \\ Links to the 10 abstracts we read:\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2455|Compressed quantum simulation of the Ising model. B. Kraus.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2939|Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters - Gottesman et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2103|Entanglement-secured single-qubit quantum secret-sharing - Scherpeltz et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2070|Optimal linear optical implementation of a single-qubit damping channel - Fisher et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5334|Observation of topologically protected bound states in a one dimensional photonic system - Kitagawa et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3712|Manipulating and probing Majorana fermions using superconducting circuits - You et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3053|Strongly correlated photons on a chip - Reinhard et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5652|Entangled Photon Polarimetry - Altepeter et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5107|Waveguide single-photon detectors for integrated quantum photonic circuits - Sprengers et al.]]\\ [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5036|All photons are equal but some photons are more equal than others - Toppel et al.]] ~~LINKBACK~~ ~~DISCUSSION~~