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Uncertainty relations based on quantum coherence is an important problem in quantum information science. We discuss uncertainty relations for averaged unified ($\alpha$,$\beta$)-relative entropy of coherence under mutually unbiased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Baolong Cheng , Zhaoqi Wu

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has recently led to general measurement uncertainty relations for quantum systems: incompatible observables can be measured jointly or in sequence only with some unavoidable approximation, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

Entropic uncertainty relations express the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle by quantifying uncertainty in terms of entropy. Central questions include the derivation of lower bounds on the total uncertainty for given observables, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Sönke Niekamp , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne

We present an equivalence theorem to unify the two classes of uncertainty relations, i.e., the variance-based ones and the entropic forms, which shows that the entropy of an operator in a quantum system can be built from the variances of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Historically, the element of uncertainty in quantum mechanics has been expressed through mathematical identities called uncertainty relations, a great many of which continue to be discovered. These relations use diverse measures to quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Varun Narasimhachar , Alireza Poostindouz , Gilad Gour

In the course of the last decades entropic uncertainty relations have attracted much attention not only due to their fundamental role as manifestation of non-classicality of quantum mechanics, but also as major tools for applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Andreas Ketterer , Otfried Gühne

We improve the entropic uncertainty relations for position and momentum coarse-grained measurements. We derive the continuous, coarse-grained counterparts of the discrete uncertainty relations based on the concept of majorization. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Łukasz Rudnicki

Commutator-based entropic uncertainty relations in multidimensional position and momentum spaces are derived, twofold generalizing previous entropic uncertainty relations for one-mode states. They provide optimal lower bounds and imply the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Yichen Huang

Under the scenario of generalized measurements, it can be questioned how much of quantum uncertainty can be attributed to measuring device, independent of the uncertainty in the measured system. On the course to answer the question, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Kyunghyun Baek , Wonmin Son

Entropic uncertainty relations place nontrivial lower bounds to the sum of Shannon information entropies for noncommuting observables. Here we obtain a novel lower bound on the entropy sum for general pairs of observables in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julio I. de Vicente , Jorge Sánchez-Ruiz

We explore the modification of the entropic formulation of uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics which measures the incompatibility of measurements in terms of Shannon entropy. The deformation in question is the type so called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-28 Li-Yi Hsu , Shoichi Kawamoto , Wen-Yu Wen

The uncertainty principle sets limit on our ability to predict the values of two incompatible observables measured on a quantum particle simultaneously. This principle can be stated in various forms. In quantum information theory, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 H. Dolatkhah , S. Haseli , S. Salimi , S. A. Khorashad

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

The entropic uncertainty principle in the form proven by Maassen and Uffink yields a fundamental inequality that is prominently used in many places all over the field of quantum information theory. In this work, we provide a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Antonio F. Rotundo , René Schwonnek

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

Uncertainty relations lie at the very core of quantum mechanics, and form the cornerstone of essentially all quantum cryptographic applications. In particular, they play an important role in cryptographic protocols in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Stephanie Wehner , Andreas Winter

Uncertainty principle, a fundamental principle in quantum physics, has been studied intensively via various uncertainty inequalities. Here we derive an uncertainty equality in terms of linear entropy, and show that the sum of uncertainty in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Zhihao Ma , Shengjun Wu , Zhihua Chen

We derive several entanglement criteria for bipartite continuous variable quantum systems based on the Shannon entropy. These criteria are more sensitive than those involving only second-order moments, and are equivalent to well-known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. P. Walborn , B. G. Taketani , A. Salles , F. Toscano , R. L. de Matos Filho

In this paper we derive a new quantum entropic uncertainty relation, bounding the conditional smooth quantum min entropy based on the result of a measurement using a two outcome POVM and the failure probability of a classical sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Walter O. Krawec

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