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Can Intense Quantum Light Beat Classical Uncertainty Relations?

Quantum Physics 2025-12-11 v1 Optics

Abstract

Uncertainty relations are fundamental to quantum mechanics, encoding limits on the simultaneous measurement of conjugate observables. Violations of joint uncertainty bounds can certify entanglement -- a resource critical for quantum information protocols and increasingly relevant in strong-field physics. Here, we investigate the pairwise time-delay and frequency-bandwidth uncertainties for arbitrary multimode quantum states of light, deriving a general lower bound for their joint product. We find that the nonclassical correction scales inversely with the average photon number, a behavior rooted in the so-called ``monogamy of entanglement''. These results clarify the intensity scaling of quantum advantages in nonclassical light states and highlight the interplay between entanglement and photon statistics.

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@article{arxiv.2512.09558,
  title  = {Can Intense Quantum Light Beat Classical Uncertainty Relations?},
  author = {Felipe Reibnitz Willemann and Mauro Antezza and Johannes Feist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09558},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

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