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The uncertainty relation is a fundamental limit in quantum mechanics and is of great importance to quantum information processing as it relates to quantum precision measurement. Due to interactions with the surrounding environment, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Dong Wang , Ai-Jun Huang , Ross D. Hoehn , Fei Ming , Wen-Yang Sun , Jia-Dong Shi , Liu Ye , Sabre Kais

For a pair of incompatible quantum measurements, the total uncertainty can be bounded by a state-independent constant. However, such a bound can be violated if the quantum system is entangled with another quantum system (called memory); the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Jin-Long Huang , Wen-Cong Gan , Yunlong Xiao , Fu-Wen Shu , Man-Hong Yung

This paper is generally concerned with understanding how the uncertainty principle arises in formulations of quantum mechanics, such as the decoherent histories approach, whose central goal is the assignment of probabilities to histories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. J. Halliwell

Quantum uncertainty relations are typically analyzed for a pair of incompatible observables, however, the concept per se naturally extends to situations of more than two observables. In this work, we obtain tripartite quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Hazhir Dolatkhah , Saeed Haddadi , Soroush Haseli , Mohammad Reza Pourkarimi , Mario Ziman

Quantum discord and quantum uncertainty are two important features of the quantum world. In this work, the relation between entropic uncertainty relation and the shareability of quantum discord is studied. First, by using tripartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Hazhir Dolatkhah , Abolhassan Mohammadi , Soroush Haseli

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

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

Quantum memory systems are vital in quantum information processing for dependable storage and retrieval of quantum states. Inspired by classical reliability theories that synthesize reliable computing systems from unreliable components, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anuj K. Nayak , Eric Chitambar , Lav R. Varshney

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Mario Berta , Stephanie Wehner , Mark M. Wilde

Entropic uncertainty relations are powerful tools, especially in quantum cryptography. They typically bound the amount of uncertainty a third-party adversary may hold on a measurement outcome as a result of the measurement overlap. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Walter O. Krawec

We present a new uncertainty relation by defining a measure of uncertainty based on skew information. For bipartite systems, we establish uncertainty relations with the existence of a quantum memory. A general relation between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Zhihao Ma , Zhihua Chen , Shaoming Fei

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

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is a fundamental element in quantum mechanics. It sets a bound on our ability to predict the measurement outcomes of two incompatible observables simultaneously. In quantum information theory, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Fariba Shahbazi , Soroush Haseli , Hazhir Dolatkhah , Shahriar Salimi

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

We present a protocol for transfer of an unknown quantum state. The protocol is based on a two-mode cavity interacting dispersively in a sequential manner with three-level atoms in $\Lambda$ configuration. We propose a scheme for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asoka Biswas , G. S. Agarwal

An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

Gaussian distribution of a quantum state with continuous spectrum is known to maximize the Shannon entropy at a fixed variance. Applying it to a pair of canonically conjugate quantum observables $\hat x$ and $\hat p$, quantum entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Wonmin Son

Uncertainty relations give upper bounds on the accuracy by which the outcomes of two incompatible measurements can be predicted. While established uncertainty relations apply to cases where the predictions are based on purely classical data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Marco Tomamichel , Renato Renner

Recently, Xu et al. [Phys. Rev. A 86, 012113(2012)] explored the behavior of the entropic uncertainty relation under the influence of local unital and nonunital noisy channels for a class of Bell-diagonal states. We here reform their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Youneng Guo , Maofa Fang , Ke Zeng

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