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Considerations in the Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation from the Viewpointt of Hypothesis Testing

Quantum Physics 2017-12-04 v1

Abstract

It is difficult to discriminate between the state of initial time t0t_0 and that of time t0+Δtt_0+\Delta t. The task of discriminating between the two states can be interpreted as the hypothesis testing problem as to a state ρ\rho deciding whether ρ\rho is ρt0\rho_{t_0} orρt0+Δt\rho_{t_0+\Delta t} We show the process of optimization of this hypotheses testing and the condition that discrimination between the two states become difficult even when optimized test was executed. In addition, We consider time-enegy uncertainty relation from the viewpoint of optimized hypotheses testing. Optimization consists of two steps. The first step is to optimize the decision rule based on the outcome of the given measurement by the Neyman-Pearson theorem. The second step is to select optimum measurement in order to maximize the power of test. The optimum measurement is proved to be {00,100}\{ |0\rangle \langle 0|,1-|0\rangle \langle 0|\} and the power of test in the optimized test holds γMax=1exp(2n2Δt2ΔH2)+o(Δt2)\gamma_{Max}=1-\exp(-\frac{2n}{\hbar^2}\Delta t^2\Delta H^2)+o(\Delta t^2) when Δt1\Delta t \ll 1 satisfies,where n is the number of the data. It will be impossible to discriminate between the two states when the power of this test declines. This condition becomes 2n2Δt2ΔH21\frac{2n}{\hbar^2}\Delta t^2\Delta H^2\ll 1 in the optimized hypotheses testing. It is remarkable that the optimum measurement is composed of the operators Q0Q_0 and 1Q01-Q_0 in the proof of time-energy uncertainty relation. Namely, the time-energy uncertainty relation presents the time interval in which even the optimum measurement hardly detect modification of the initial state .

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@article{arxiv.1712.00257,
  title  = {Considerations in the Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation from the Viewpointt of Hypothesis Testing},
  author = {Keiji Matsumoto and Susumu Osawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00257},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper had appeared in Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement, Plenum Press, (1997) and is based on the talk given at the Quantum Communication Meeting, held in 1996