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Quantum physics constrains the accuracy of joint measurements of incompatible observables. Here we test tight measurement-uncertainty relations using single photons. We implement two independent, idealized uncertainty-estimation methods,…

Uncertainty relations are usually formulated as trade-off relations between two or more observables. Here we show that the uncertainty of a single observable already has a nontrivial lower bound originating from the noncommutativity between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Haruki Yamashita , Aina Mayumi , Gen Kimura

Quantum mechanics predicts that measurements of incompatible observables carry a minimum uncertainty which is independent of technical deficiencies of the measurement apparatus or incomplete knowledge of the state of the system. Nothing yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Davide Girolami , Tommaso Tufarelli , Gerardo Adesso

For a pair of observables, they are called "incompatible", if and only if the commutator between them does not vanish, which represents one of the key features in quantum mechanics. The question is, how can we characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yunlong Xiao , Cheng Guo , Fei Meng , Naihuan Jing , Man-Hong Yung

We study the problem of estimating, in the sense of optimal transport metrics, a measure which is assumed supported on a manifold embedded in a Hilbert space. By establishing a precise connection between optimal transport metrics, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Guillermo D. Canas , Lorenzo Rosasco

The principle of complementarity is quantified in two ways: by a universal uncertainty relation valid for arbitrary joint estimates of any two observables from a given measurement setup, and by a general uncertainty relation valid for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael J. W. Hall

We propose an alternative measure of quantum uncertainty for pairs of arbitrary observables in the 2-dimensional case, in terms of collision entropies. We derive the optimal lower bound for this entropic uncertainty relation, which results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 G. M. Bosyk , M. Portesi , A. Plastino

Uncertainty principle is an inherent nature of quantum system that undermines the precise measurement of incompatible observables and hence the applications of quantum theory. Entanglement, another unique feature of quantum physics, was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

The uncertainty relation is a distinguishing feature of quantum theory, characterizing the incompatibility of noncommuting observables in the preparation of quantum states. Recently, many uncertainty relations were proposed with improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Zhi-Xin Chen , Jun-Li Li , Qiu-Cheng Song , Hui Wang , S. M. Zangi , Cong-Feng Qiao

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…

Joint measurements of non-commuting observables are characterized by unavoidable measurement uncertainties that can be described in terms of the error statistics for input states with well-defined values for the target observables. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Shota Kino , Taiki Nii , Holger F. Hofmann

Quantifying quantum mechanical uncertainty is vital for the increasing number of experiments that reach the uncertainty limited regime. We present a method for computing tight variance uncertainty relations, i.e., the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 René Schwonnek , Lars Dammeier , Reinhard F. Werner

The recently established universal uncertainty principle revealed that two nowhere commuting observables can be measured simultaneously in some state, whereas they have no joint probability distribution in any state. Thus, one measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Masanao Ozawa

We prove an uncertainty relation, which imposes a bound on any joint measurement of position and momentum. It is of the form $(\Delta P)(\Delta Q)\geq C\hbar$, where the `uncertainties' quantify the difference between the marginals of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 R. F. Werner

Uncertainty principle is one of the cornerstones of quantum theory. In the literature, there are two types of uncertainty relations, the operator form concerning the variances of physical observables and the entropy form related to entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Quantum measurements are not deterministic. For this reason quantum measurements are repeated for a number of shots on identically prepared systems. The uncertainty in each measurement depends on the number of shots and the expected outcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Pieter Thijs Eendebak

Given two or more non-commuting observables, it is generally not possible to simultaneously assign precise values to each. This quantum mechanical uncertainty principle is widely understood to be encapsulated by some form of uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Paul Busch , Oliver Reardon-Smith

We construct a multi-observable uncertainty equality as well as an inequality based on the sum of standard deviations in the qubit system. The obtained equality indicates that the uncertainty relation can be expressed more accurately, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Xiao Zheng , Shaoqiang Ma , Guofeng Zhang

Uncertainty relations describe the lower bound of product of standard deviations of observables. By revealing a connection between standard deviations of quantum observables and numerical radius of operators, we establish a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Jinchuan Hou , Kan He

In this paper we consider the problem of unambiguous discrimination between a set of linearly independent pure quantum states. We show that the design of the optimal measurement that minimizes the probability of an inconclusive result can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Yonina C. Eldar