Weak Values Beyond the Weak Limit: Measurement-Strength Invariance Under Post-Selection

arXiv:2609.22976 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Comments: 12 pages (10 pages for main text, 2 pages for appendices), 4 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Post-Selection — 38× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Trajectories — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Comment on "Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer"
• Quantum nonlocal correlations of anomalous weak values
• The Trouble with Weak Values

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