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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is usually taken to express a limitation of operational possibilities imposed by quantum mechanics. Here we demonstrate that the full content of this principle also includes its positive role as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 P. Busch , T. Heinonen , P. Lahti

As a foundation of modern physics, uncertainty relations describe an ultimate limit for the measurement uncertainty of incompatible observables. Traditionally, uncertain relations are formulated by mathematical bounds for a specific state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jie Xie , Songtao Huang , Li Zhou , Aonan Zhang , Huichao Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Nengkun Yu , Lijian Zhang

Analyzing Heisenberg--Robertson (HR) and Schr\"{o}dinger uncertainty relations we found, that there can exist a large set of states of the quantum system under considerations, for which the lower bound of the product of the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Krzysztof Urbanowski

Heisenberg's reciprocal relation between position measurement error and momentum disturbance is rigorously proven under the assumption that those error and disturbance are independent of the state of the measured object. A generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Masanao Ozawa

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

By invoking quantum estimation theory we formulate bounds of errors in quantum measurement for arbitrary quantum states and observables in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. We prove that the measurement errors of two observables satisfy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yu Watanabe , Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has recently led to general measurement uncertainty relations for quantum systems: incompatible observables can be measured jointly or in sequence only with some unavoidable approximation, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

A concise review of various mathematical formulations of the uncertainty relations in quantum mechanics discovered since 1927 is given. Besides the traditional Heisenberg inequality, the modifications made by Schr\"odinger and Robertson, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 V. V. Dodonov

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 problem of characterising the accuracy of, and disturbance caused by a joint measurement of position and momentum is investigated. In a previous paper the problem was discussed in the context of the unbiased measurements considered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Appleby

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

One of the formulations of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concerning so-called measurement uncertainty, states that the measurement of one observable modifies the statistics of the other. Here, we derive such a measurement uncertainty…

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental pillars of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. It is normally introduced by postulating the commutation relations $[\hat{x}^i, \hat{p}^j] = i\hbar \delta^{ij}$. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-29 Ezequiel Valero , Hector Gisbert , Victor Ilisie

The entropic way of formulating Heisenberg's uncertainty principle not only plays a fundamental role in applications of quantum information theory but also is essential for manifesting genuine nonclassical features of quantum systems. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shan Huang , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen , Shengjun Wu

Recently, universally valid uncertainty relations have been established to set a precision limit for any instruments given a disturbance constraint in a form more general than the one originally proposed by Heisenberg. One of them leads to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle and its extensions are all still inequalities form which hold the superior approximate estimations. Based on quantum covariant Poisson bracket theory, we propose quantum geomertainty relation to modify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Gen Wang

General characterizations of physical measurements are discussed within the framework of the classical information theory. The uncertainty relation for simultaneous measurements of two physical observables is defined in this framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Yoshimasa Kurihara

The uncertainty principle is often interpreted by the tradeoff between the error of a measurement and the consequential disturbance to the followed ones, which originated long ago from Heisenberg himself but now falls into reexamination and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Heisenberg uncertainty relation is at the origin of understanding minimum uncertainty states and squeezed states of light. In the recent past, sum uncertainty relation was formulated by Maccone and Pati [Maccone and Pati, Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yatindra Kumar , Yashraj Jha , Namrata Shukla

Heisenberg's uncertainty relation is commonly regarded as defining a level of unpredictability that is fundamentally incompatible with the deterministic laws embodied in classical field theories such as Einstein's general relativity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul S. Wesson