Background
With the development of science and technology, the demand of precision measurement is getting bigger and bigger, and the precision measurement plays a considerable role from scientific research to industrial production, and from military defense to daily life. The high-precision measurement of the physical quantity temperature which plays an index role in each field is urgent.
To achieve precise measurement of temperature, temperature is generally measured using the resistance of a semiconductor device as a function of temperature, or using some physical natural frequency as a function of temperature. These methods involve more or less complex electrical devices, which limits their applicability and cost of use.
In 1988, YakirAharonov, David z. albert and LevVaidman et al published papers (phys. rev. lett.60, 1351(1988)), introduced the concept of quantum weak measurement: the quantum weak measurement is a new measurement mode based on an indirect measurement theory, is different from projection measurement, and when weak measurement is carried out, the coupling strength between a probe and a system is small, and the disturbance of the measurement to the system is small, so that information obtained by an observer is relatively small.
The method has the advantages that the pure phase amplification is realized, the physical significance is not excessive, the actual physical quantity temperature is converted into the phase, and the precise measurement of the temperature is indirectly realized. For the existing temperature measurement method, either the contact measurement is needed to limit the application range, or the measurement precision is not high enough, and the requirement of precision measurement cannot be met. The method provided by the invention can be widely applied to various places needing temperature measurement and monitoring, and provides a new idea for measuring other physical quantities.
Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem of the invention is solved: the defects of the prior art are overcome, and the crystal temperature measuring device and method based on quantum weak measurement amplification are provided. Temperature change is converted into phase change, and the phase change is amplified in a phase amplification mode, so that temperature measurement is realized, and the precision and the sensitivity are higher than those of the conventional method. In addition, the invention is realized based on the basic Mach Zehnder interferometer, has simple structure and low cost, and can be widely applied to various fields.
The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: a crystal temperature measurement device based on quantum weak measurement amplification, comprising: a signal generating section, a temperature signal converting section, a signal amplifying section, an extracting section and a calculating section;
a signal generating section including a laser light source device, a half-wave plate, a beam polarization shifter, and a half-wave plate; the laser source device provides stable transverse polarized laser; the half-wave plate is rotated to 22.5 degrees, so that the polarization of the laser is changed from transverse direction to 45 degrees, namely, the initial polarization state of the two-energy-level quantum state system is generated
|H>And | V>Respectively representing horizontal and vertical polarization states; the beam polarization shifter separates the transversely polarized photons from the vertically polarized photons along two parallel paths to realize the entanglement of the polarization state of the photons and the path state, i.e. the quantum state is changed into the quantum state after passing through the beam polarization shifter
Wherein |0>And |1>Representing the path states of the light beam along the two paths; the beam continues to pass through a half-wave plate at 22.5 deg. to obtain a new quantum state
The initial state of the two-level quantum state system comprises a pointer state and a system state, namely a photon polarization state and a photon path state, and the initial state of the photon prepared by the signal generation part is
A temperature signal conversion part including a crystal to be measured at a temperature T and a temperature T
0The two optical axes of the standard crystal are vertical to each other; after the signal generation part prepares the initial state of the photon, the temperature signal change of the crystal is converted into the phase change, and the quantum state of the photon is changed into
Theta (T) and theta (T)
0) Respectively a crystal to be tested andthe phase introduced by the standard crystal is an object amplified and measured by a subsequent part;
a signal amplifying section including a half-wave plate disposed at 22.5 ° + δ/2 and a beam shifter; the light beam passing through the temperature signal conversion part passes through a half-wave plate arranged at 22.5 DEG, and the non-normalized photon quantum state is changed into
Then, the beam shifter is used to post-select the system state, namely the path state, and the unnormalized pointer state obtained after simplification is
Theta is less than 1, and the pointer state is obtained by further simplifying the approximation
The method comprises the steps of (1) realizing the amplification of a minimum phase theta by selecting delta meeting the condition that delta is larger than theta and i is an imaginary number unit, wherein the minimum phase refers to a phase far smaller than 1 radian; θ (T) - θ (T)
0) The phase difference introduced by the crystal to be detected and the standard crystal needs to meet the requirement that theta is less than 1, and 1/delta is an amplification factor introduced by the signal amplification part;
the extraction part comprises a half-wave plate, a quarter-wave plate and a polarization beam splitter, wherein the half-wave plate and the quarter-wave plate are used for determining the polarization direction, and the polarization beam splitter is used for selecting a single polarization direction; the quantum state of the signal amplification part contains a tiny phase of theta < 1 after amplification, and the pointer state of the quantum state is in a measurement basis { | L>,|R>Measurement at, left-handed measurement base
And a dextrorotatory measuring base
Measuring the base | L at the left hand>During the lower measurement, the half-wave plate is arranged at 22.5 degrees, and the quarter-wave plate is arranged at 0 degree; at the measurement base | R>During the lower measurement, the half-wave plate is arranged at-22.5 degrees, and the quarter-wave plate is arranged at 0 degree;
and the calculation part calculates the original phase from the amplified minimum phase obtained by the extraction part, so as to reversely deduce the crystal temperature.
The temperature measurement mode skillfully utilizes the weak measurement amplification principle, extracts phase change caused by temperature by using the simplest optical interference mode, establishes one-to-one corresponding functional relation between the phase and the temperature, and has the double advantages of simple operation and high sensitivity and resolution.
The system of two-level quantum states is a photon.
The device is suitable for any crystal with birefringence effect and the refractive index is regularly changed along with the temperature.
The device is suitable for a physical system simultaneously having any two degrees of freedom of polarization, path and spin.
The crystal temperature measuring device based on quantum weak measurement amplification is used for measuring any physical quantity which can cause extremely small change of phase change far less than 1 radian.
The invention relates to a crystal temperature measuring method based on quantum weak measurement amplification, which comprises the following steps:
(1) the laser source generates stable linearly polarized light and realizes an initial state by combining the light beam polarization shifter;
(2) converting the temperature change of the crystal into phase change by utilizing birefringence so as to introduce a phase related to the temperature in the initial state of the step (1);
(3) introducing a phase rear state in the step (2), and realizing the amplification of a minimum phase by using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and post-selection;
(4) in { | H>,|V>L { |)>,|R>Measuring, extracting and amplifying under the condition of less than 1 radian minimum phase; | H>And | V>Representing horizontal and vertical polarization states, respectively, left-handed measuring basis
And a dextrorotatory measuring base
i is an imaginary unit;
(5) and (4) calculating and reversely deducing the original phase of the minimum phase extracted in the step (4) to obtain the temperature of the crystal to be measured.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that: the temperature measurement method for amplifying weak and small phases by utilizing quantum weak measurement can be realized by utilizing the existing mature interference technical means. Compared with the traditional interferometric phase measurement method, the scheme can realize the precise measurement of the temperature, has a simple structure, is easy to realize, and has the potential of being widely applied to the fields of scientific research, industrial production, national defense, military and the like which need high-precision measurement.
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Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a temperature measurement method for amplifying weak and small phases by using quantum weak measurement according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a temperature measuring device for amplifying weak and small phases by quantum weak measurement according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for preparing an initial state of photons according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for converting a temperature signal into a very small phase according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for amplifying a very small phase according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for measuring and extracting a minimum signal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a temperature measurement method for amplifying weak and small phases by using quantum weak measurement. The specific method comprises the following steps: the laser source generates stable linearly polarized light, and initial state preparation of photons is realized through a polarizing plate; then sequentially passing through the crystal to be detected and the standard crystal, and converting the temperature difference between the crystal to be detected and the standard crystal into a phase; the polarization state is adjusted by utilizing a half-wave plate, and weak coupling of polarization (pointer) and a path (system) is realized through a beam shifter and two half-wave plates; then, combining the beams by using a beam shifter, and selecting a path after the path is selected and only one path of light is reserved; and then, carrying out post-selection on the polarization state by a polarization analyzer to realize weak and small phase measurement, and then reversely deducing the temperature of the crystal to be measured.
The present invention will be described in detail with reference to specific examples. As shown in fig. 1, the present invention comprises the steps of:
step 1-1, generating stable linearly polarized light by a laser source, and combining a light beam polarization shifter to realize initial state preparation;
step 1-2, converting the temperature change of the crystal into phase change by utilizing birefringence so as to introduce a phase theta related to the temperature in the initial state of the previous preparation;
step 1-3, introducing a phase post-state to the previous step, and utilizing a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and post-selection to realize amplification of a minimum phase;
step 1-4, measuring under a measuring base { | H >, | V > } or { | D >, | A > } or { | L >, | R > }, and extracting and amplifying the phase which is far less than 1 radian minimum phase;
and (1) step (5) calculating and reversely deducing the original phase of the minimum phase extracted in the step (4) to obtain the temperature of the crystal to be measured.
As shown in FIG. 2, the optical path of the present invention is a temperature measuring device for amplifying a minimum phase by quantum weak measurement, and comprises a signal generating section, a temperature signal converting section, a signal amplifying section, an extracting section, and a calculating section. The signal generation part consists of a laser source 101, a half-wave plate 102, a beam polarization shifter 103 and a half-wave plate 102, wherein the half-wave plate 102, the beam polarization shifter 103 and the half-wave plate 102 are arranged in parallel; the temperature signal conversion part consists of a crystal 104 to be measured and a standard crystal 105 which are arranged in parallel; the signal amplification part is composed of a half-wave plate 102 and a beam polarization shifter 103 which are arranged in parallel; the extraction part is composed of a quarter-wave plate 106, a half-wave plate 102, a polarization beam splitter 107, a detector 108 and a detector 108, wherein the quarter-wave plate 106, the half-wave plate 102 and the polarization beam splitter 107 are arranged in parallel, and the detector 108 are arranged in the beam advancing direction for collection.
As shown in FIG. 3, the laser source produces a stable transversely polarized light, which is then converted to a 45 degree transverse polarization by a half-wave plate placed at 22.5 degrees to change the photon state to a
|H>And | V>Respectively representing horizontal and vertical polarization states; the light beam continuously passes through the light beam polarization shifter, so that the photons with transverse polarization and the photons with vertical polarization are transmitted along two parallel paths, the entanglement of the polarization state of the photons and the path state is realized, and the quantum state passing through the light beam polarization shifter is
Wherein |0>And |1>Representing the path states of the light beam along the two paths; the beam continues through a half-wave plate at 22.5 deg. to obtain a new quantum state
As shown in FIG. 4, the wafer to be testedThe temperature of the body is T and the temperature of the standard crystal is T
0It is required that the optical axes of the two are perpendicular. The quantum state after passing through the crystal to be measured is
The quantum state after passing through the standard crystal is
Wherein theta (T) and theta (T)
0) The phase introduced for the crystal to be measured and the phase introduced for the standard crystal respectively, the difference between the two being theta (T) -theta (T)
0) I.e. very small phase requiring amplification
As shown in FIG. 5, the beam carrying the phase information is first passed through a half-wave plate placed at (22.5+ δ) ° to obtain the unnormalized quantum state
After continuing to pass through the beam polarization shifter, only path |0 is taken>The resulting quantum state becomes
Only the polarization state of the photon is left at the moment, and the polarization state is obtained through approximate simplification
According to the condition that theta is less than 1 and Taylor expansion formula, the approximation can be further simplified
By selecting proper delta, the amplification of the extremely small phase theta can be realized, and the amplified phase theta 'is theta'.
As shown in FIG. 6, the measurement basis L is realized by using a quarter wave plate, a half wave plate and a polarization beam splitter>,|R>Measurements under. Wherein, in the measurement base | L>During the lower measurement, the half-wave plate is arranged at 22.5 degrees, and the quarter-wave plate is arranged at 0 degree; at the measurement base | R>For the next measurement, the half-wave plate was set at-22.5 ° and the quarter-wave plate at 0 °. The difference between the two measured light intensities is Delta I-sin (theta ') to obtain amplified phase theta' according to the formula
Pushing out θ.
In a word, the temperature measurement method for amplifying the weak and small phases by using the quantum weak measurement changes the temperature measurement problem into the phase amplification problem through the mutual conversion of the temperature information and the phase information, and realizes the minimum phase amplification by using the weak measurement. The accuracy and the sensitivity of measurement are improved, the structure is simplified, and the operability is enhanced; can be widely applied to various fields needing precise temperature measurement.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.