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A central problem in signal processing and communications is to design signals that are compact both in time and frequency. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that a given function cannot be arbitrarily compact both in time and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Reza Parhizkar , Yann Barbotin , Martin Vetterli

The time-frequency uncertainty principle states that the product of the temporal and frequency extents of a signal cannot be smaller than $1/(4\pi)$. We study human ability to simultaneously judge the frequency and the timing of a sound.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-11 Jacob N. Oppenheim , Marcelo O. Magnasco

In this paper we review the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in a discrete setting and, as in the classical uncertainty principle, we give it a dynamical sense related to the discrete Schr\"odinger equation. We study the convergence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Aingeru Fernández-Bertolin

A sharper uncertainty inequality which exhibits a lower bound larger than that in the classical N-dimensional Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is obtained, and extended from N-dimensional Fourier transform domain to two N-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Zhichao Zhang

We study the fractal uncertainty principle in the joint time-frequency representation, and we prove a version for the Short-Time Fourier transform with Gaussian window on the modulation spaces. This can equivalently be formulated in terms…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Helge Knutsen

Uncertainty principles such as Heisenberg's provide limits on the time-frequency concentration of a signal, and constitute an important theoretical tool for designing and evaluating linear signal transforms. Generalizations of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-11 Nathanael Perraudin , Benjamin Ricaud , David Shuman , Pierre Vandergheynst

The Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. The relation generally applies to frequency estimation of a near-resonant field [1-3], since information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Liam P. McGuinness

Time-frequency concentration and resolution of the Cohen's class time-frequency distribution (CCTFD) has attracted much attention in time-frequency analysis. A variety of uncertainty principles of the CCTFD is therefore derived, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Zhichao Zhang

We study the volatility functional inference by Fourier transforms. This spectral framework is advantageous in that it harnesses the power of harmonic analysis to handle missing data and asynchronous observations without any artificial time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Richard Y. Chen

Time-frequency concentration operators restrict the integral analysis-synthesis formula for the short-time Fourier transform to a given compact domain. We estimate how much the corresponding eigenvalue counting function deviates from the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Felipe Marceca , José Luis Romero

Precise measurements of both the arrival time and carrier frequency of light pulses are essential for time-frequency-encoded quantum technologies. Quantum mechanics, however, imposes fundamental limits on the simultaneous determination of…

The spectral theory of graphs provides a bridge between classical signal processing and the nascent field of graph signal processing. In this paper, a spectral graph analogy to Heisenberg's celebrated uncertainty principle is developed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

Signal processing on graphs is a recent research domain that aims at generalizing classical tools in signal processing, in order to analyze signals evolving on complex domains. Such domains are represented by graphs, for which one can…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bastien Pasdeloup , Vincent Gripon , Grégoire Mercier , Dominique Pastor

In this work, we introduce a hierarchy of function classes defined on a fixed compact interval, along with tailored uncertainty operators. We establish key properties of the associated uncertainty product, showing that it is invariant under…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Lorenzo de Leonardis , Alessandro Mazzoccoli , Pierluigi Vellucci

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies fundamental constraints on what properties of a quantum system can we simultaneously learn. However, it typically assumes that we probe these properties via measurements at a single point in time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yunlong Xiao , Yuxiang Yang , Ximing Wang , Qing Liu , Mile Gu

The spectrogram is a classical DSP tool used to view signals in both time and frequency. Unfortunately, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal limits our ability to use them for detecting and measuring narrowband signal modulation in wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Ray Maleh , Frank A. Boyle

This paper investigates performance limitations and tradeoffs in the control design for linear time-invariant systems. It is shown that control specifications in time domain and in frequency domain are always mutually exclusive determined…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Ji King

The classical support uncertainty principle states that the signal and its discrete Fourier transform (DFT) cannot be localized simultaneously in an arbitrary small area in the time and the frequency domain. The product of the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Ljubisa Stankovic

The covariance function and the variogram play very important roles in modelling and in prediction of spatial and spatio-temporal data. The assumption of second order stationarity, in space and time, is often made in the analysis of spatial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-20 T. Subba Rao , Gy. Terdik

This work considers uncertainty relations on time frequency distributions from a signal processing viewpoint. An uncertainty relation on the marginalizable time frequency distributions is given. A result from quantum mechanics is used on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Eren Berk Kama , Mustafa Kuzuoğlu
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