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Tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubits

Quantum Physics 2016-02-26 v2

Abstract

The well-known Robertson-Schr\"odinger uncertainty relations have state-dependent lower bounds which are trivial for certain states. We present a general approach to deriving tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubit measurements that completely characterise the obtainable uncertainty values. This approach can give such relations for any number of observables, and we do so explicitly for arbitrary pairs and triples of qubit measurements. We show how these relations can be transformed into equivalent tight entropic uncertainty relations. More generally, they can be expressed in terms of any measure of uncertainty that can be written as a function of the expectation value of the observable for a given state.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02383,
  title  = {Tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubits},
  author = {Alastair A. Abbott and Pierre-Louis Alzieu and Michael J. W. Hall and Cyril Branciard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02383},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures

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