Weak values from path integrals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00832v2
• Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:12:04 GMT
• Title: Weak values from path integrals
• Authors: A. Matzkin
• Abstract summary: We show how Feynman propagators can in principle be experimentally inferred from weak value measurements. We obtain expressions for weak values parsing unambiguously the quantum and the classical aspects of weak couplings between a system and a probe.
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• Abstract: We connect the weak measurements framework to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. We show how Feynman propagators can in principle be experimentally inferred from weak value measurements. We also obtain expressions for weak values parsing unambiguously the quantum and the classical aspects of weak couplings between a system and a probe. These expressions are shown to be useful in quantum chaos related studies (an illustration involving quantum scars is given), and also in solving current weak-value related controversies (we discuss the existence of discontinuous trajectories in interferometers and the issue of anomalous weak values in the classical limit).

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