Weak Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit Reconciles Incompatible Operators
Jonathan T. Monroe, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Taeho Lee, Kater W. Murch
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.100403 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
Traditional uncertainty relations dictate a minimal amount of noise in incompatible projective quantum measurements. However, not all measurements are projective. Weak measurements are minimally invasive methods for obtaining partial state information without projection. Recently, weak measurements were shown to obey an uncertainty relation cast in terms of entropies. We experimentally test this entropic uncertainty relation with strong and weak measurements of a superconducting transmon qubit. A weak measurement, we find, can reconcile two strong measurements’ incompatibility, via backaction on the state. Mathematically, a weak value—a preselected and postselected expectation value—lowers the uncertainty bound. Hence we provide experimental support for the physical interpretation of the weak value as a determinant of a weak measurement’s ability to reconcile incompatible operations.
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