7 research outputs found
Standard and Null Weak Values
Weak value (WV) is a quantum mechanical measurement protocol, proposed by
Aharonov, Albert, and Vaidman. It consists of a weak measurement, which is
weighed in, conditional on the outcome of a later, strong measurement. Here we
define another two-step measurement protocol, null weak value (NVW), and point
out its advantages as compared to WV. We present two alternative derivations of
NWVs and compare them to the corresponding derivations of WVs.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success
Story: Yakir Aharonov Festschrif
Quantum Pump for Fractional Charge
We propose a theoretical scenario for pumping of fractionally charged
quasi-particle in the context of fractional quantum Hall liquid. We
consider quasi-particle pumping across an anti-dot level tuned close to the
resonance. Fractional charge pumping is achieved by slow and periodic
modulation of coupling of the anti-dot level to left and right moving edges of
a Hall bar set-up. This is attained by periodically modulating the gate
voltages controlling the couplings. In order to obtain quantization of pumped
charge in the unit of the electronic charge fraction () per pumping
cycle in the adiabatic limit, we argue that the only possibility is to tune the
quasi-particle operator to be irrelevant from being relevant in the
renormalization group sense, which can be accomplished by invoking quantum Hall
line junctions into the Hall bar geometry. We also comment on possibility for
experimental realization of the above scenario.Comment: Version to appear in Europhys. Lett. (2008