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Three notions of complementarity - operational, probabilistic, and value complementarity - are reanalysed with respect to the question of joint measurements and compared with reference to some examples of canonically conjugate observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 P. Busch , P. J. Lahti

The weak values and weak measurement formalism were initially limited to pure states, which were later extended to mixed states, leading to intriguing applications in quantum information processing tasks. Weak values are considered to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajendra Singh Bhati

The article recapitulates the concept of weak measurement in its broader sense encapsulating the trade between asymptotically weak measurement precision and asymptotically large measurement statistics. Essential applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diosi

The notion of weak measurement provides a formalism for extracting information from a quantum system in the limit of vanishing disturbance to its state. Here we extend this formalism to the measurement of sequences of observables. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Graeme Mitchison , Richard Jozsa , Sandu Popescu

In their paper (arXiv:2402.09879), Aredes and Saldanha analyze several paradoxes related to weak values and present a "general argument" that aims to show that "realistic interpretations ...of weak values lead to inconsistencies". Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Juan José Seoane , Xabier Oianguren-Asua , Albert Solé , Xavier Oriols

We present a versatile inequality of uncertainty relations which are useful when one approximates an observable and/or estimates a physical parameter based on the measurement of another observable. It is shown that the optimal choice for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Jaeha Lee , Izumi Tsutsui

The impossibility of measuring noncommuting quantum mechanical observables is one of the most fascinating consequences of the quantum mechanical postulates. Hence, to date the investigation of quantum measurement and projection is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Adam Bednorz , Wolfgang Belzig

We present a brief review of the impact of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations on quantum optics. In particular we demonstrate how almost all coherent and nonclassical states of quantum optics can be derived from uncertainty relations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. S. Agarwal

Experimentally, the imaginary parts of complex weak values are obtained from the response of the system to small unitary phase shifts generated by the target observable. The complex conditional probabilities obtained from weak measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Holger F. Hofmann

We study a possible improvement of uncertainty relations. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation employs commutator of a pair of conjugate observables to set the limit of quantum measurement of the observables. The Schroedinger uncertainty…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yong Moon Park

Two of the most intriguing features of quantum physics are the uncertainty principle and the occurrence of nonlocal correlations. The uncertainty principle states that there exist pairs of incompatible measurements on quantum systems such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Marco Tomamichel , Esther Hänggi

A model is proposed for the statistical analysis of arbitrary-strength quantum measurements, based on a picture of "sampling weak values" from different configurations of the system. The model is comprised of two elements: a "local weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alonso Botero

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

Quantum nonlocality offers a secure way to produce random numbers: their unpredictability is intrinsic and can be certified just by observing the statistic of the measurement outcomes, without assumptions on how they are produced. To do…

As the fundamental tool in quantum information science, the uncertainty principle is essential for manifesting nonclassical properties of quantum systems. Plenty of efforts on the uncertainty principle with two observables have been…

Quantum measurements are inherently probabilistic and quantum theory often forbids to precisely predict the outcomes of simultaneous measurements. This phenomenon is captured and quantified through uncertainty relations. Although studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Carlos de Gois , Kiara Hansenne , Otfried Gühne

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle imposes a fundamental restriction in quantum mechanics, stipulating that measuring one observable completely erases the information on its conjugate one, thereby preventing simultaneous measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Muchun Yang , Yibin Huang , D. L. Zhou

An example shows that weak decoherence is more restrictive than the minimal logical decoherence structure that allows probabilities to be used consistently for quantum histories. The probabilities in the sum rules that define minimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Thomas F. Jordan , Eric D. Chisolm

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…

We discuss some applications of various versions of uncertainty relations for both discrete and continuous variables in the context of quantum information theory. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation enables demonstration of the EPR paradox.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Archan S. Majumdar , Tanumoy Pramanik