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The uncertainty principle lies at the heart of quantum physics, and is widely thought of as a fundamental limit on the measurement precisions of incompatible observables. Here we show that the traditional uncertainty relation in fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

The position-momentum uncertainty-like inequality based on moments of arbitrary order for d-dimensional quantum systems, which is a generalization of the celebrated Heisenberg formulation of the uncertainty principle, is improved here by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Steeve Zozor , Mariela Portesi , Pablo Sanchez-Moreno , Jesus S. Dehesa

In quantum mechanics, the variance-based Heisenberg-type uncertainty relations are a series of mathematical inequalities posing the fundamental limits on the achievable accuracy of the state preparations. In contrast, we construct and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yao Yao , Xing Xiao , Xiaoguang Wang , C. P. Sun

Among various uncertainty relations, the profound fine-grained uncertainty relation is used to distinguish the uncertainty inherent in obtaining any combination of outcomes for different measurements. In this Letter, we explore this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Jun Feng , Yao-Zhong Zhang , Mark D. Gould , Heng Fan

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

The uncertainty principle is one of the characteristic properties of quantum theory, where it signals the incompatibility of two types of measurements. In this paper, we argue that measurements of time-of-arrival $T_x$ at position $x$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Mathieu Beau , Lionel Martellini

Mutual unbiasedness of the eigenstates of phase-space operators-such as position and momentum, or their standard coarse grained versions-exists only in the limiting case of infinite squeezing. In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040403 (2018)] it was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 E. C. Paul , S. P. Walborn , D. S. Tasca , Lukasz Rudnicki

In this letter, the number-phase entropic uncertainty relation and the number-phase Wigner function of generalized coherent states associated to a few solvable quantum systems with nondegenerate spectra are studied. We also investigate time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 G. R. Honarasa , M. K. Tavassoly , M. Hatami

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf

We provide a unified and strengthened framework for the product form and the sum form variance-based uncertainty relations by constructing a unified uncertainty relation. In the unified framework, we deduce that the uncertainties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Xiao Zheng , Shao-Qiang Ma , Guo-Feng Zhang , Heng Fan , Wu-Ming Liu

Even though mutually unbiased bases and entropic uncertainty relations play an important role in quantum cryptographic protocols they remain ill understood. Here, we construct special sets of up to 2n+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-04 Prabha Mandayam , Niranjan Balachandran , Stephanie Wehner

We analyze quantum state estimation for finite samples based on symmetry information. The used measurement concept compares an unknown qubit to a reference state. We describe explicitly an adaptive strategy, that enhances the estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christof J. Happ , Matthias Freyberger

In recent years, novel quantifications of measurement error in quantum mechanics have for the first time enabled precise formulations of Heisenberg's famous but often challenged measurement uncertainty relation. These relations take the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Paul Busch , David B Pearson

We show how preparation uncertainty relations that are formulated as sums of variances may be tightened by using the quantum Fisher information to quantify quantum fluctuations. We apply this to derive stronger angular momentum uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Shao-Hen Chiew , Manuel Gessner

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…

The uncertainty relation lies at the heart of quantum theory and behaves as a non-classical constraint on the indeterminacies of incompatible observables in a system. In the literature, many experiments have been devoted to the test of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shuang Wang , Fang-Xia Meng , Hui Wang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Traditional forms of quantum uncertainty relations are invariably based on the standard deviation. This can be understood in the historical context of simultaneous development of quantum theory and mathematical statistics. Here, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Gautam Sharma , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Sk Sazim , Arun Kumar Pati

Entropic uncertainty relations provide an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the fundamental indeterminacy inherent in quantum mechanics. We propose more stringent quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qing-Hua Zhang , Cong Xu , Jing-Feng Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

The basic methods of constructing the sets of mutually unbiased bases in the Hilbert space of an arbitrary finite dimension are discussed and an emerging link between them is outlined. It is shown that these methods employ a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel R. P. Planat , Haret Rosu , Serge Perrine , Metod Saniga

Coherence of a quantum state intrinsically depends on the choice of the reference basis. A natural question to ask is the following: if we use two or more incompatible reference bases, can~there be some trade-off relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati , Manabendra Nath Bera