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Uncertainty relations express the fundamental incompatibility of certain observables in quantum mechanics. Far from just being puzzling constraints on our ability to know the state of a quantum system, uncertainty relations are at the heart…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-30 Omar Fawzi

We review the plethora of uncertainty relations that appear in quantum mechanics and their nuances. We present both foundational applications, e.g. in understanding and defining complementarity, and practical applications, e.g. in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Giovanni Chesi , Lorenzo Maccone

We explore the uncertainty relation for unitary operators in a new way and find two uncertainty equalities for unitary operators, which are minimized by any pure states. Additionally, we derive two sets of uncertainty inequalities that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ao-Xiang Liu , Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

We study uncertainty relations for pairs of conjugate variables like number and angle, of which one takes integer values and the other takes values on the unit circle. The translation symmetry of the problem in either variable implies that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Paul Busch , Jukka Kiukas , Reinhard F. Werner

The uncertainty principle restricts potential information one gains about physical properties of the measured particle. However, if the particle is prepared in entanglement with a quantum memory, the corresponding entropic uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Yunlong Xiao , Naihuan Jing , Xianqing Li-Jost

The uncertainty relation of three quantities in quantum mechanics is estimated in terms of commutators. The Pauli matrices are used to find a contribution of third-order commutators. The resulting inequality refines the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Sergei P. Efimov

A tight information-theoretic measurement uncertainty relation is experimentally tested with neutron spin-1/2 qubits. The noise associated to the measurement of an observable is defined via conditional Shannon entropies and a tradeoff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Bülent Demirel , Stephan Sponar , Alastair A. Abbott , Cyril Branciard , Yuji Hasegawa

New sum and product uncertainty relations, containing variances of three or four observables, but not containing explicitly their covariances, are derived. One of consequences is the new inequality, giving a nonzero lower bound for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 V. V. Dodonov

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

We show that the uncertainty relation as expressed in the Robertson-Schrodinger generalized form can be used to detect the mixedness of three-level quantum systems in terms of measureable expectation values of suitably chosen observables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 S. Mal , T. Pramanik , A. S. Majumdar

A prominent formulation of the uncertainty principle identifies the fundamental quantum feature that no particle may be prepared with certain outcomes for both position and momentum measurements. Often the statistical uncertainties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Fabian Furrer , Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel , Volkher B. Scholz , Matthias Christandl

The well-known Robertson-Schr\"odinger uncertainty relations have state-dependent lower bounds which are trivial for certain states. We present a general approach to deriving tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Alastair A. Abbott , Pierre-Louis Alzieu , Michael J. W. Hall , Cyril Branciard

Quantum metrology uses small changes in the output probabilities of a quantum measurement to estimate the magnitude of a weak interaction with the system. The sensitivity of this procedure depends on the relation between the input state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Holger F. Hofmann

We introduce a new information-theoretic formulation of quantum measurement uncertainty relations, based on the notion of relative entropy between measurement probabilities. In the case of a finite-dimensional system and for any approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty relation presents an ultimate limit to the precision by which one can predict the outcome of position and momentum measurements on a particle. Heisenberg explicitly stated this relation for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Han Bao , Shenchao Jin , Junlei Duan , Suotang Jia , Klaus Mølmer , Heng Shen , Yanhong Xiao

The uncertainty relation and the probability interpretation of quantum mechanics are intrinsically connected, as is evidenced by the evaluation of standard deviations. It is thus natural to ask if one can associate a very small uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kazuo Fujikawa , Koichiro Umetsu

The fundamental principles of complementarity and uncertainty are shown to be related to the possibility of joint unsharp measurements of pairs of noncommuting quantum observables. A new joint measurement scheme for complementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Busch , C. R. Shilladay

Entropic uncertainty relations $H(A)+H(B)\geqslant \gamma$ give a nonzero lower bound $\gamma$ to the sum of the Shannon entropies $H$ of the outcome probabilities of incompatible observables $A$ and $B$. They are better than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Riccardi , Lorenzo Maccone

A general theory of preparational uncertainty relations for a quantum particle in one spatial dimension is developed. We derive conditions which determine whether a given smooth function of the particle's variances and its covariance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Spiros Kechrimparis , Stefan Weigert

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao