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The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is one of the most famous features of quantum mechanics. However, the non-determinism implied by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle --- together with other prominent aspects of quantum mechanics such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

We consider entropic uncertainty relations for outcomes of the measurements of a quantum state in 3 or more mutually unbiased bases (MUBs), chosen from the standard construction of MUBs in prime dimension. We show that, for any choice of 3…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 Andris Ambainis

We derive several uncertainty relations for two arbitrary unitary operators acting on physical states of a Hilbert space. We show that our bounds are tighter in various cases than the ones existing in the current literature. Using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Shrobona Bagchi , Arun Kumar Pati

One of the defining traits of quantum mechanics is the uncertainty principle which was originally expressed in terms of the standard deviation of two observables. Alternatively, it can be formulated using entropic measures, and can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Göktuğ Karpat , Jyrki Piilo , Sabrina Maniscalco

This paper deduces universal uncertainty principle in different quantum theories after about one century of proposing uncertainty principle by Heisenberg, i.e., new universal uncertainty principle of any orders of physical quantities in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 C. Huang , Yong-Chang Huang

Uncertainty principle is the basis of quantum mechanics. It reflects the basic law of the movement of microscopic particles. Wigner-Yanase skew information, as a measure of quantum uncertainties, is used to characterize the intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Limei Zhang , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

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

In this work we use the extremization method of various information-theoretic measures (Fisher information, Shannon entropy, Tsallis entropy) for $d$-dimensional quantum systems, which complementary describe the spreading of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 I. V. Toranzo , S. López-Rosa , R. O. Esquivel , J. S. Dehesa

The uncertainty principle bounds the uncertainties about incompatible measurements, clearly setting quantum theory apart from the classical world. Its mathematical formulation via uncertainty relations, plays an irreplaceable role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yunlong Xiao , Kun Fang , Gilad Gour

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

The entropic uncertainty relation proven by Maassen and Uffink for arbitrary pairs of two observables is known to be non-optimal. Here, we call an uncertainty relation optimal, if the lower bound can be attained for any value of either of…

In this note, we consider the implications of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (HUP) when computing uncertainties that affect the main dynamical quantities, from the perspective of special relativity. Using the well-known formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 Luca Nanni

Entropic uncertainty relations are quantitative characterizations of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which make use of an entropy measure to quantify uncertainty. In quantum cryptography, they are often used as convenient tools in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Niek J. Bouman , Serge Fehr , Carlos González-Guillén , Christian Schaffner

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

Recently, a new interesting concept of reverse uncertainty relation is introduced. Different from the normal uncertainty relation, the reverse one indicates that one cannot only prepare quantum states with joint small uncertainty, but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Qiyi Li , Shaoqiang Ma , Sansheng Wang , Xiao Zheng , Guofeng Zhang

The uncertainty principle can be expressed in entropic terms, also taking into account the role of entanglement in reducing uncertainty. The information exclusion principle bounds instead the correlations that can exist between the outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Patrick J. Coles , Marco Piani

It is well known that the problem of divergence in the physical interpretation of quantum mechanics originating from the uncertainty principle has not yet been resolved. Attempting to clear the constraints and confusion of this situation…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 De-Long Duan

The uncertainty principle limits quantum states such that when one observable takes predictable values there must be some other mutually unbiased observables which take uniformly random values. We show that this restrictive condition plays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Oscar C. O. Dahlsten , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral

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

The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Heisenberg in inertial frames, clearly distinguishes quantum theories from classical mechanics. In non-inertial frames, its information-theoretic expressions, namely entropic uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Chen Qian , Ya-Dong Wu , Jia-Wei Ji , Yunlong Xiao , Barry C. Sanders