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Tight entropic uncertainty relations for systems with dimension three to five

Quantum Physics 2017-03-15 v1

Abstract

We consider two (natural) families of observables OkO_k for systems with dimension d=3,4,5d=3,4,5: the spin observables SxS_x, SyS_y and SzS_z, and the observables that have mutually unbiased bases as eigenstates. We derive tight entropic uncertainty relations for these families, in the form kH(Ok)αd\sum_kH(O_k)\geqslant\alpha_d, where H(Ok)H(O_k) is the Shannon entropy of the measurement outcomes of OkO_k and αd\alpha_d is a constant. We show that most of our bounds are stronger than previously known ones. We also give the form of the states that attain these inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.1701.04304,
  title  = {Tight entropic uncertainty relations for systems with dimension three to five},
  author = {Alberto Riccardi and Chiara Macchiavello and Lorenzo Maccone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04304},
  year   = {2017}
}
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