Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: As per the projection postulate, the evolution of the quantum state of a system upon measurement results in state update. In this work we investigate the characterization of updated states of multipartite entangled qubit states with nondestructive weak measurements, involving weakly coupling a pointer to each qubit while considering a relativistic setup involving different reference frames. As is well known, the updated state at intermediate times is frame dependent and outcome randomness, intrinsic to projective measurements, prevents any information from being acquired on the updated state. Here we will see that when weak measurements are implemented there is instead an interplay between randomness and interference, depending on the number of qubits, so as to maintain consistency between descriptions in arbitrary reference frames. Analytical results are given for a small or infinite number of qubits, while for a finite number of qubits we resort to Monte Carlo sampling in order to simulate numerically the results of weak measurements. As a by-product, we show how a single-shot measurement of the pointers' positions allows us to make quantitative predictions on the outcomes that can be obtained for any observable measured on a distant qubit of the multipartite state.
Source: Physical Review A
Authors: J. Allam, A. Matzkin
Institution: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4407136128