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The variance of an observable in a quantum state is usually used to describe Heisenberg uncertainty relation. For mixed states, the variance includes quantum uncertainty and classical uncertainty. By means of the skew information and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 D. Li , X. Li , F. Wang , X. Li , H. Huang , L. C. Kwek

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle provides a fundamental limitation on an observer's ability to simultaneously predict the outcome when one of two measurements is performed on a quantum system. However, if the observer has access to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Robert Prevedel , Deny R. Hamel , Roger Colbeck , Kent Fisher , Kevin J. Resch

It is shown that all the known uncertainty relations are the secondary consequences of Robertson's relation. The basic idea is to use the Heisenberg picture so that the time development of quantum mechanical operators incorporate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Kazuo Fujikawa

We study a possible improvement of uncertainty relations. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation employs commutator of a pair of conjugate observables to set the limit of quantum measurement of the observables. The Schroedinger uncertainty…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yong Moon Park

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

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a Kantowski-Sachs metric in Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity with a set of coordinates in minisuperspace that obey a generalized uncertainty principle is studied. We first study the equation coming from a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-14 H. Garcia-Compean , D. Mata-Pacheco

We study the time evolution of the reduced Wigner function for a class of quantum Brownian motion models. We derive two generalized uncertainty relations. The first consists of a sharp lower bound on the uncertainty function, $U = (\Delta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 C. Anastopoulos , J. J. Halliwell

Uncertainty relations for mixed quantum states (precisely, purity-bounded position-momentum relations, developed by Bastiaans and then by Man'ko and Dodonov) are studied in general multi-dimensional case. An expression for family of mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikalai Karelin

In recent letter [Phys.~Rev.~Lett {\bf 123}, 110602 (2019)], Y.~Hasegawa and T.~V.~Vu derived a thermodynamic uncertainty relation. But the bound of their relation is loose. In this comment, through minor changes, an improved bound is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Yunxin Zhang

Entropic uncertainty relations place nontrivial lower bounds to the sum of Shannon information entropies for noncommuting observables. Here we obtain a novel lower bound on the entropy sum for general pairs of observables in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julio I. de Vicente , Jorge Sánchez-Ruiz

Various models of quantum gravity imply the Planck-scale modifications of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle into a so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). The GUP effects on high-energy physics, cosmology, and astrophysics have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Dongfeng Gao , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

Various models of quantum gravity suggest a modification of the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, to the so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle, between position and momentum. In this work we show how this modification influences the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-18 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das

Entropic uncertainty relations, based on sums of entropies of probability distributions arising from different measurements on a given pure state, can be seen as a generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation that is in many cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Azarchs

Various theories that aim at unifying gravity with quantum mechanics suggest modifications of the Heisenberg algebra for position and momentum. From the perspective of quantum mechanics, such modifications lead to new uncertainty relations…

In the history of quantum mechanics, various types of uncertainty relationships have been introduced to accommodate different operational meanings of Heisenberg uncertainty principle. We derive an optimized entropic uncertainty relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Tristan Farrow , Wonmin Son

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle forms a fundamental element of quantum mechanics. Uncertainty relations in terms of entropies were initially proposed to deal with conceptual shortcomings in the original formulation of the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Patrick J. Coles , Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel , Stephanie Wehner

Modifications of Heisenberg's uncertainty relations have been proposed in the literature which imply a minimum position uncertainty. We study the low energy effects of the new physics responsible for this by examining the consequent change…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 R. Akhoury , Y. -P. Yao

Uncertainty relations provide fundamental limits on what can be said about the properties of quantum systems. For a quantum particle, the commutation relation of position and momentum observables entails Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Spiros Kechrimparis , Stefan Weigert

The indeterminacy inherent in quantum measurement is an outstanding character of quantum theory, which manifests itself typically in Heisenberg's error-disturbance uncertainty relation. In the last decade, Heisenberg's relation has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Bülent Demirel , Stephan Sponar , Georg Sulyok , Masanao Ozawa , Yuji Hasegawa

In this article we examine a Generalized Uncertainty Principle which differs from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by terms linear and quadratic in particle momenta, as proposed by the authors in an earlier paper. We show that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-21 Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das , Elias C. Vagenas