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The uncertainty principle generally prohibits determination of certain pairs of quantum mechanical observables with arbitrary precision and forms the basis of indeterminacy in quantum mechanics. It was Heisenberg who used the famous…

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached when a mechanical oscillator subjected to the force is…

In this paper we introduce a new localization framework for wavelet transforms, such as the 1D wavelet transform and the Shearlet transform. Our goal is to design nonadaptive window functions that promote sparsity in some sense. For that,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Ron Levie , Nir Sochen

The main result of this paper is, that if we suppose that a function is absolutely continuous and uniformly H\"older continuous and that its finite difference function does not oscillate infinitely often on a bounded interval, then the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Juhani Nissilä

The time-frequency content of a signal can be measured by the Gabor transform or windowed Fourier transform. This is a function defined on phase space that is computed by taking the Fourier transform of the product of the signal against a…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Jayakumar Ramanathan , Pankaj Topiwala

It is proved that the width of a function and the width of the distribution of its values cannot be made arbitrarily small simultaneously. In the case of ergodic stochastic processes, an ensuing uncertainty relationship is demonstrated for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-30 Timur E. Gureyev , Alexander Kozlov , Yakov I. Nesterets , David M. Paganin , Harry M. Quiney

Context: Several approaches to estimate frequency, phase and amplitude errors in time series analyses were reported in the literature, but they are either time consuming to compute, grossly overestimating the error, or are based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kallinger , P. Reegen , W. W. Weiss

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which imposes intrinsic restrictions on our ability to predict the outcomes of incompatible quantum measurements to arbitrary precision, demonstrates one of the key differences between classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yunlong Xiao , Kuntal Sengupta , Siren Yang , Gilad Gour

The uncertainty product of a function is a quantity that measures the trade-off between the space and the frequency localization of the function. Its boundedness from below is the content of various uncertainty principles. In the present…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Ilona Iglewska-Nowak

In many areas of engineering and sciences, decision rules and control strategies are usually designed based on nominal values of relevant system parameters. To ensure that a control strategy or decision rule will work properly when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Xinjia Chen

The celebrated Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle \Delta x \Delta p\ge \hbar/2 can allow measurement accuracies less than \Delta x or \Delta p. Classical analog of this is known as sub-Fourier sensitivity. We illustrate this phenomenon in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Anwar Mohiuddin , Abhijeet K. Jha , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The aim of this paper is to prove some new uncertainty principles for the windowed Hankel transform. They include uncertainty principle for orthonormal sequence, local uncertainty principle, logarithmic uncertainty principle and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Wen-Biao Gao , Bing-Zhao Li

The nonstationary nature of signals and nonlinear systems require the time-frequency representation. In time-domain signal, frequency information is derived from the phase of the Gabor's analytic signal which is practically obtained by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Pushpendra Singh

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, exemplified by the gamma ray thought experiment, suggests that any finite precision measurement disturbs any observables noncommuting with the measured observable. Here, it is shown that this statement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Masanao Ozawa

Frames in separable Hilbert spaces gives stable analysis and reconstruction of each vector in the underlying space. In this paper, we study frame conditions for a collection of matrix-valued functions obtained by non-uniform shifts. We give…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Hari Krishan Malhotra , Manisha Chhillar , Lalit Kumar Vashisht

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has been understood to set a limitation on measurements; however, the long-standing mathematical formulation established by Heisenberg, Kennard, and Robertson does not allow such an interpretation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Masanao Ozawa

Analyzing time series in the frequency domain enables the development of powerful tools for investigating the second-order characteristics of multivariate processes. Parameters like the spectral density matrix and its inverse, the coherence…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-19 Jonas Krampe , Efstathios Paparoditis

We study fluctuations of mean-field interacting particle systems around their McKean--Vlasov limit. Our main result provides a uniform-in-time quantitative central limit theorem for the fluctuation process, with convergence rate of order…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Solesne Bourguin , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

In this paper, we have given a new definition of continuous fractional wavelet transform in $\mathbb{R}^N$, namely the multidimensional fractional wavelet transform (MFrWT) and studied some of the basic properties along with the inner…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Navneet Kaur , Bivek Gupta , Amit K. Verma

In its original formulation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle describes a trade-off relation between the error of a quantum measurement and the thereby induced disturbance on the measured object. However, this relation is not valid in…