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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is one of the main tenets of quantum theory. Nevertheless, and despite its fundamental importance for our understanding of quantum foundations, there has been some confusion in its interpretation: although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 Cyril Branciard

Strong and general entropic and geometric Heisenberg limits are obtained, for estimates of multiparameter unitary displacements in quantum metrology, such as the estimation of a magnetic field from the induced rotation of a probe state in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Michael J. W. Hall

A universal formulation of the quantum uncertainty regarding quantum indeterminacy, quantum measurement, and its inevitable observer effect is presented with additional focus on the representability of quantum observables over a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jaeha Lee

While von Neumann entropies for subregions in quantum field theory universally contain ultraviolet divergences, differences between von Neumann entropies are finite and well-defined in many physically relevant scenarios. We demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-21 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Samuel Leutheusser , Adel A. Rahman , Gautam Satishchandran , Antony J. Speranza

Quantum gravity theories predict a minimal length at the order of magnitude of the Planck length, under which the concepts of space and time lose every physical meaning. In quantum mechanics, the insurgence of such minimal length can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Tommaso Giani , Matteo G. A. Paris

The Ehrenfest theorem and the Robertson uncertainty relation are well-known basic equations in quantum mechanics. However, there exist problematic cases, where the Ehrenfest theorem and the Robertson uncertainty relation are not correct.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Klaus Renziehausen , Ingo Barth

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) stands out as a nearly ubiquitous feature in quantum gravity modeling, predicting the emergence of a minimum length at the Planck scale. Recently, it has been shown to modify the area-law scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Yassine Sekhmani

The uncertainty relation formulated by Heisenberg in 1927 describes a trade-off between the error of a measurement of one observable and the disturbance caused on another complementary observable so that their product should be no less than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Masanao Ozawa

From the noncommutative nature of quantum mechanics, estimation of canonical observables $\hat{q}$ and $\hat{p}$ is essentially restricted in its performance by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, $\mean{\Delta \hat{q}^2}\mean{\Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-24 Naoki Yamamoto , Shinji Hara

We provide general arguments regarding the connection between low-energy theories (gravity and quantum field theory) and a hypothetical fundamental theory of quantum gravity, under the assumptions of (i) validity of the holographic bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-15 Giovanni Acquaviva , Alfredo Iorio , Martin Scholtz

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

We give a bound to the precision in the estimation of a parameter in terms of the expectation value of an observable. It is an extension of the Cramer-Rao inequality and of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, where the estimation precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

We examine quantum gravity effects by applying the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) to entropic uncertainty relation conditions on quantum entanglement. In particular, we study the GUP corrections to the Shannon entropic uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Otto Gadea , Gardo Blado

This paper addresses the effect of generalized uncertainty principle, emerged by a different approaches of quantum gravity within Planck scale, on thermodynamic properties of photon, non-relativistic ideal gases and degenerate fermions. A…

General Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Mohamed Moussa

One of the challenges of today's theoretical physics is to fully understand the connection between a geometrical object like area and a thermostatistical one like entropy, since area behaves analogously like entropy. The Bekenstein bound…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Everton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto

The idea to base the uncertainty relation for photons on the electromagnetic energy distribution in space enabled us to derive a sharp inequality that expresses the uncertainty relation [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 108}, 140401 (2012)]. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

By applying the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for a macroscopic quantum gas formed by gravitational waves an expression for the universal bound on the entropy proposed by Bekenstein for any system of maximum radius R and total energy E…

By invoking quantum estimation theory we formulate bounds of errors in quantum measurement for arbitrary quantum states and observables in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. We prove that the measurement errors of two observables satisfy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yu Watanabe , Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda

Various approaches to Quantum Gravity (such as String Theory and Doubly Special Relativity), as well as black hole physics predict a minimum measurable length, or a maximum observable momentum, and related modifications of the Heisenberg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-29 Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das , Elias C. Vagenas

Quantum theory is notoriously counterintuitive, and yet remains entirely self-consistent when applied universally. Here we uncover a new manifestation of its unusual consequences. We demonstrate, theoretically and experimentally (by means…