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Quantifying incompatibility beyond entropic uncertainty

Quantum Physics 2015-10-15 v1

Abstract

We study two operational approaches to quantifying incompatibility that depart significantly from the well known entropic uncertainty relation (EUR) formalism. Both approaches result in incompatibility measures that yield non-zero values even when the pair of incompatible observables commute over a subspace, unlike EURs which give a zero lower bound in such cases. Here, we explicitly show how these measures go beyond EURs in quantifying incompatibility: For any set of quantum observables, we show that both incompatibility measures are bounded from below by the corresponding EURs for the Tsallis (T2T_{2}) entropy. We explicitly evaluate the incompatibility of a pair of qubit observables in both operational scenarios. We also obtain an efficiently computable lower bound for the mutually incompatibility of a general set of observables.

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@article{arxiv.1510.04093,
  title  = {Quantifying incompatibility beyond entropic uncertainty},
  author = {Srijita Kundu and Kaustubh Wagh and Prabha Mandayam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04093},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures, v1

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