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We investigate entropic uncertainty relations for two or more binary measurements, for example spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ or polarisation measurements. We argue that the effective anti-commutators of these measurements, i.e. the anti-commutators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Jędrzej Kaniewski , Marco Tomamichel , Stephanie Wehner

The existence of quantum uncertainty relations is the essential reason that some classically impossible cryptographic primitives become possible when quantum communication is allowed. One direct operational manifestation of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Omar Fawzi , Patrick Hayden , Pranab Sen

We describe a setup for obtaining uncertainty relations for arbitrary pairs of observables related by Fourier transform. The physical examples discussed here are standard position and momentum, number and angle, finite qudit systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-18 Reinhard F. Werner

As a very fundamental principle in quantum physics, uncertainty principle has been studied intensively via various uncertainty inequalities. Based on the information measure introduced by Brukner and Zeilinger in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3354…

Our investigation of the results of the neutron spin experiment by Ehhart et al. demonstrates that their results cannot be understood in accordance with common sense. For example, their results obtained with different measurement errors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Seiji Kosugi

Uncertainty principle, a fundamental principle in quantum physics, has been studied intensively via various uncertainty inequalities. Here we derive an uncertainty equality in terms of linear entropy, and show that the sum of uncertainty in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Zhihao Ma , Shengjun Wu , Zhihua Chen

Uncertainty and intrinsic measurement disturbance, two fundamental concepts in quantum measurement, have conventionally been viewed as distinct and studied separately. In this work, we establish a fundamental connection between them,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Liang-Liang Sun , Kishor Bharti , Xiang Zhou , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Jingyun Fan , Sixia Yu

It is known that the variance and entropy of quantum observables decompose into intrinsically quantum and classical contributions. Here a general method of constructing quantum-classical decompositions of resources such as uncertainty is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Michael J. W. Hall

Uncertainty relations state that there exist certain incompatible measurements, to which the outcomes cannot be simultaneously predicted. While the exact incompatibility of quantum measurements dictated by such uncertainty relations can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Esther Hänggi , Stephanie Wehner

Uncertainty relations in quantum mechanics express bounds on our ability to simultaneously obtain knowledge about expectation values of non-commuting observables of a quantum system. They quantify trade-offs in accuracy between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Ilya Kull , Philippe Allard Guérin , Frank Verstraete

The quantum component in uncertainty relation can be naturally characterized by the quantum coherence of a quantum state, which is of paramount importance in quantum information science. Here, we experimentally investigate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Lu Liu , Ting Zhang , Xiao Yuan , He Lu

An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

The uncertainty principle, which bounds the uncertainties involved in obtaining precise outcomes for two complementary variables defining a quantum particle, is a crucial aspect in quantum mechanics. Recently, the uncertainty principle in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Xiao-Ye Xu , Ke Li , Guang-Can Guo

The uncertainty relation reveals the intrinsic difference between the classical world and the quantum world. We investigate the quantum uncertainty relation of quantum channel in qubit systems. Under two general measurement bases, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shi-Yun Kong , Ming-Jing Zhao , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Uncertainty principle is one of the most essential features in quantum mechanics and plays profound roles in quantum information processing. We establish tighter summation form uncertainty relations based on metric-adjusted skew information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Cong Xu , Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-Ming Fei

We postulate the existence of a universal uncertainty relation between the quantum and classical mutual informations between pairs of quantum systems. Specifically, we propose that the sum of the classical mutual information, determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 James Schneeloch , Curtis J. Broadbent , John C. Howell

The precise one-shot characterisation of operational tasks in classical and quantum information theory relies on different forms of smooth entropic quantities. A particularly important connection is between the hypothesis testing relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Nilanjana Datta

Incompatible observables can be approximated by compatible observables in joint measurement or measured sequentially, with constrained accuracy as implied by Heisenberg's original formulation of the uncertainty principle. Recently, Busch,…

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Mario Berta , Stephanie Wehner , Mark M. Wilde

We study uncertainty relations for pairs of conjugate variables like number and angle, of which one takes integer values and the other takes values on the unit circle. The translation symmetry of the problem in either variable implies that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Paul Busch , Jukka Kiukas , Reinhard F. Werner