  Quantum measurement is one of the most fascinating and discussed phenomena in
quantum physics, due to the impact on the system of the measurement action and
the resulting interpretation issues. Scholars proposed weak measurements to
amplify measured signals by exploiting a quantity called a weak value, but also
to overcome philosophical difficulties related to the system perturbation
induced by the measurement process. The method finds many applications and
raises many philosophical questions as well, especially about the proper
interpretation of the observations. In this paper, we show that any weak value
can be expressed as the expectation value of a suitable non-normal operator. We
propose a preliminary explanation of their anomalous and amplification behavior
based on the theory of non-normal matrices and their link with non-normality:
the weak value is different from an eigenvalue when the operator involved in
the expectation value is non-normal. Our study paves the way for a deeper
understanding of the measurement phenomenon, helps the design of experiments,
and it is a call for collaboration to researchers in both fields to unravel new
quantum phenomena induced by non-normality.
