Weak local measurements reproduce the measurement time of strong measurements on entangled systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08484v2
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:30:45 GMT
• Title: Weak local measurements reproduce the measurement time of strong measurements on entangled systems
• Authors: Truong-Son P. Van, Andrew N. Jordan, David W. Snoke,
• Abstract summary: We show that a crucial result can be reproduced by purely weak measurements. This result affirms the self-consistency of the hypothesis that spontaneous weak measurements lie at the base of all physical measurements.
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• Abstract: It is well established that starting only with strong, projective quantum measurements, experiments can be designed to allow weak measurements, which lead to random walk between the possible final measurement outcomes. However, one can ask the reverse question: starting with only weak measurements, can all the results of standard strong measurements be recovered? Prior work has shown that some results can be, such as the Born rule for the probability of measurement outcomes as a function of wave intensity. In this paper we show that another crucial result can be reproduced by purely weak measurements, namely the collapse of a many-body, nonlocally entangled wave function on a time scale comparable to the characteristic time of a single, local measurement; for an entangled state of a single excitation among $N$ qubits, we find the collapse time scales as a double logarithm of $N$. This result affirms the self-consistency of the hypothesis that spontaneous weak measurements lie at the base of all physical measurements, independent of human observers.

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