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Weak Values from Displacement Currents in Multiterminal Electron Devices

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 116, Issue 11, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.110404

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  1. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
  2. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad through the Spanish Project [TEC2012-31330, TEC2015-67462-C2-1-R]
  3. Generalitat de Catalunya [2014 SGR-384]
  4. European Union Seventh Framework Program [604391]
  5. INFN

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Weak values allow the measurement of observables associated with noncommuting operators. Up to now, position-momentum weak values have been mainly developed for (relativistic) photons. In this Letter, a proposal for the measurement of such weak values in typical electronic devices is presented. Inspired by the Ramo-Shockley-Pellegrini theorem that provides a relation between current and electron velocity, it is shown that the displacement current measured in multiterminal configurations can provide either a weak measurement of the momentum or strong measurement of position. This proposal opens new opportunities for fundamental and applied physics with state-of-the-art electronic technology. As an example, a setup for the measurement of the Bohmian velocity of (nonrelativistic) electrons is presented and tested with numerical experiments.

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