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Generalized Landau-Pollak Uncertainty Relation

Quantum Physics 2008-10-30 v3

Abstract

The Landau-Pollak uncertainty relation treats a pair of rank one projection valued measures and imposes a restriction on their probability distributions. It gives a nontrivial bound for summation of their maximum values. We give a generalization of this bound (weak version of the Landau-Pollak uncertainty relation). Our generalization covers a pair of positive operator valued measures. A nontrivial but slightly weak inequality that can treat an arbitrary number of positive operator valued measures is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.0707.4450,
  title  = {Generalized Landau-Pollak Uncertainty Relation},
  author = {Takayuki Miyadera and Hideki Imai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4450},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Simplified the proofs. To be published in Phys.Rev.A

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