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Uncertainty relations are usually stated as bounds on selected combinations of variances, but the full covariance matrix contains substantially richer information about the geometry of quantum state space and about the operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Dimpi Thakuria , Shuheng Liu , Giuseppe Vitagliano , Konrad Szymański

Entropic uncertainty relations are interesting in their own rights as well as for a lot of applications. Keeping this in mind, we try to make the corresponding inequalities as tight as possible. The use of parametrized entropies also allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

Uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In this work, we derive two uncertainty equalities, which hold for all pairs of incompatible observables. We also obtain an uncertainty relation in weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Qiu-Cheng Song , Cong-Feng Qiao

Complementarity was originally introduced as a qualitative concept for the discussion of properties of quantum mechanical objects that are classically incompatible. More recently, complementarity has become a \emph{quantitative} relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Dieter Suter , Jiangfeng Du , Maili Liu , Kelin Gao

Finite tight frames are interesting in various topics including questions of quantum information. Each complex tight frame leads to a resolution of the identity in the Hilbert space. Symmetric informationally complete measurements are a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Alexey E. Rastegin

Quantum measurements necessarily disturb the state of physical system. Once we perform a complete measurement, the system undergoes decoherence and loses its coherence. If there is no disturbance, the state retains all of its coherence. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Gautam Sharma , Arun Kumar Pati

Bohr's principle of complementarity predicts that in a welcher weg ("which-way") experiment, obtaining fully visible interference pattern should lead to the destruction of the path knowledge. Here I report a failure for this prediction in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahriar S. Afshar

Quantum mechanical wave-particle duality is quantified in terms of a trade-off relation between the fringe visibility and the which-way distinguishability in an interference experiment. This relation is recently generalized by Banaszek et.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 J. Prabhu Tej , A. R. Usha Devi , H. S. Karthik , Sudha , A. K. Rajagopal

Wave--particle duality demonstrates the peculiar nature of quantum mechanics. In which-way experiments, depending on the measurement scheme, a particle exhibits either wave-like or particle-like properties, as summarized by Bohr's principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Shiyu Wang , Zhiguang Yan , Clemens Gneiting , Rui Li , Franco Nori , Yasunobu Nakamura

Entropic uncertainty relations are quantitative characterizations of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which make use of an entropy measure to quantify uncertainty. In quantum cryptography, they are often used as convenient tools in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Niek J. Bouman , Serge Fehr , Carlos González-Guillén , Christian Schaffner

We consider a subgroup of unitary transformations on a mode of light induced by a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer and an algebra of observables describing a photon-number detector proceeded by an interferometer. We explore the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Madhura Ghosh Dastidar , Gniewomir Sarbicki

Recently, Zheng constructs a quantum-control-assisted multipartite variance-based uncertainty relation, which successfully extends the conditional uncertainty relation to the multipartite case [Annalen der physik, 533, 2100014 (2021)]. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Jie Xu , Xiao Zheng , Ai-Ling Ji , Guo-Feng Zhang

Measurement incompatibility is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. In the context of estimating multiple parameters of a quantum system, this manifests as a fundamental trade-off between the precisions with which different parameters can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Simon K. Yung , Aritra Das , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

Introductory courses on quantum mechanics usually include lectures on uncertainty relations, typically the inequality derived by Robertson and, perhaps, other statements. For the benefit of the lecturers, we present a unified approach --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Berthold-Georg Englert

Heisenberg's intuition was that there should be a tradeoff between measuring a particle's position with greater precision and disturbing its momentum. Recent formulations of this idea have focused on the question of how well two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-31 Patrick J. Coles , Fabian Furrer

Number-phase uncertainty relations are formulated in terms of unified entropies which form a family of two-parametric extensions of the Shannon entropy. For two generalized measurements, unified-entropy uncertainty relations are given in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Alexey E. Rastegin

The entropic uncertainty principle as outlined by Maassen and Uffink for a pair of non-degenerate observables in a finite level qusystem is generalized here to the case of a pair of arbitrary quantum measurements. In particular, our result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M Krishna , K R Parthasarathy

Entropic uncertainty relations play a fundamental role in quantum information theory. However, determining optimal (tight) entropic uncertainty relations for general observables remains a formidable challenge and has so far been achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Measurement outcomes of a quantum state can be genuinely random (unpredictable) according to the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation puts constrains on the accuracy of two noncommuting observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Xiao Yuan , Ge Bai , Tianyi Peng , Xiongfeng Ma

Complementarity plays a pivotal role in understanding a diverse range of quantum phenomena. Here, we show how the tradeoff between quantities of a complete complementarity relation is modified in an arbitrary spacetime for a particle with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Marcos L. W. Basso , Ismael L. Paiva , Pedro R. Dieguez