Semester Project 01 – Quantum Weak Measurement

This repository documents the work carried out as part of Semester Project 01 (Semester VII), under the supervision of Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh, focusing on the theoretical foundations of quantum weak measurement, primarily based on the works of Aharonov–Albert–Vaidman (AAV) and Duck–Stevenson–Sudarshan (SSD).

Repository Structure

Presentations/

• AAV_paper_presentation.pdf
  Presentation covering the basics of weak measurement following the original Aharonov–Albert–Vaidman (AAV) formulation.
• SSD_paper_presentation.pdf
  Presentation discussing the refined treatment of weak measurements as given by Duck–Stevenson–Sudarshan (SSD).

Reports/

• RP_01_Brief_Report.pdf
  A concise report summarizing the core ideas and results.
• RP_01_Report_main.pdf
  The final detailed report containing theoretical background, derivations, analysis, and discussion.

code/

• code_01_main.ipynb
  Main notebook implementing the weak measurement model and reproducing the key results.
• code_02.ipynb, code_03.ipynb
  Notebooks used to generate animations by varying the coupling strength (ε) or the pointer shift (Δ).
• animation.gif, animation_epsilon.gif
  Animations produced from the simulations, illustrating the evolution of the pointer distribution.

This repository serves as a complete academic record of the presentations, reports, and computational work carried out for the course project.