General approach of weak-to-strong measurement transition for Fock-state-based pointer states

Abstract

Recently, the measurement transition between von Neumann's projective strong measurement and Aharonov's weak measurement is investigated theoretically and experimentally in many studies. In this work, the general formulas related to the weak-to-strong measurement transition are presented for Fock state based pointers, and as an example the coherent state based pointer case is illustrated. The possible ways to realize this proposal using the trapped ion system are also discussed.