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The uncertainty principle is considered to be one of the most striking features in quantum mechanics. In the textbook literature, uncertainty relations usually refer to the preparation uncertainty which imposes a limitation on the spread of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Wenchao Ma , Bin Chen , Ying Liu , Mengqi Wang , Xiangyu Ye , Fei Kong , Fazhan Shi , Shao-Ming Fei , Jiangfeng Du

Given a large number N of copies of a qubit state of which we wish to estimate its purity, we prove that separable-measurement protocols can be as efficient as the optimal joint-measurement one if classical communication is used. This shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 E. Bagan , M. A. Ballester , R. Munoz-Tapia , O. Romero-Isart

Quantumness imposes a fundamental limit on measurement accuracy. The paradigmatic cases are Heisenberg's uncertainty relation in the original formulation, Robertson's formulation, and improved uncertainty relations. However, the more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 D. Maroulakos , C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Wal , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

Fidelity is the standard measure for quantifying the similarity between two quantum states. It is equal to the square of the minimum Bhattacharyya coefficient between the probability distributions induced by quantum measurements on the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Datong Chen , Huangjun Zhu

Taking advantage of coherent light beams, we experimentally investigate the variancebased uncertainty relations and the optimal majorization uncertainty relation for the two-dimensional quantum mechanical system.Different from most of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Hui Wang , Jun-Li Li , Shuang Wang , Qiu-Cheng Song , Cong-Feng Qiao

Measurement incompatibility, or joint measurability, is a cornerstone of quantum theory and a useful resource. For finite-dimensional systems, quantifying this resource and establishing universal bounds valid for all measurements is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sébastien Designolle

Incompatible, i.e. non-jointly measurable quantum measurements are a necessary resource for many information processing tasks. It is known that increasing the number of distinct measurements usually enhances the incompatibility of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Lucas Tendick , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Joint quantum measurements of non-commuting observables are possible, if one accepts an increase in the measured variances. A necessary condition for a joint measurement to be possible is that a joint probability distribution exists for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wonmin Son , Erika Andersson , Stephem M. Barnett , M. S. Kim

We investigate the product form uncertainty relations of variances for $n\,(n\geq 3)$ quantum observables. In particular, tight uncertainty relations satisfied by three observables has been derived, which is shown to be better than the ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-12 Hui-Hui Qin , Shao-Ming Fei , Xianqing Li-Jost

The current study aims to examine uncertainty relations for measurements from generalized equiangular tight frames. Informationally overcomplete measurements are a valuable tool in quantum information processing, including tomography and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Alexey E. Rastegin

We have made the first experimental demonstration of the simultaneous minimum uncertainty product between two complementary observables for a two-state system (a qubit). A partially entangled two-photon state was used to perform such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Trifonov , Gunnar Bjork , Jonas Soderholm

We present a comprehensive and pedagogical formulation of Bayesian multiparameter quantum estimation. Within this framework, we analyse the role of measurement incompatibility and establish its quantitative effect on attainable precision.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Francesco Albarelli , Dominic Branford , Jesús Rubio

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 investigate generalized measurements, based on positive-operator-valued measures, and von Neumann measurements for the unambiguous discrimination of two mixed quantum states that occur with given prior probabilities. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

We derive uncertainty relation inequalities according to the mutually unbiased measurements. Based on the calculation of the index of coincidence of probability distribution given by $d+1$ MUMs on any density operator $\rho$ in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Bin Chen , Shao-Ming Fei

The goal of comparison is to reveal the difference of compared objects as fast and reliably as possible. In this paper we formulate and investigate the unambiguous comparison of unknown quantum measurements represented by non-degenerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario Ziman , Teiko Heinosaari , Michal Sedlak

We describe a particular class of pairs of quantum observables which are extremal in the convex set of all pairs of compatible quantum observables. The pairs in this class are constructed as uniformly noisy versions of two mutually unbiased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Claudio Carmeli , Gianni Cassinelli , Alessandro Toigo

The incompatibility of the measurements constraints the achievable precisions in multi-parameter quantum estimation. Understanding the tradeoff induced by such incompatibility is a central topic in quantum metrology. Here we provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Hongzhen Chen , Yu Chen , Haidong Yuan

In this paper we introduce a measure of genuine quantum incompatibility in the estimation task of multiple parameters, that has a geometric character and is backed by a clear operational interpretation. This measure is then applied to some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Federico Belliardo , Vittorio Giovannetti

Based on mixedness definition as M=1-tr(\r{ho}^2), we obtain a new variance-based uncertainty equality along with an inequality for Hermitian operators of a single-qubit system. The obtained uncertainty equality can be used as a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Xiao Zheng , Guo-Feng Zhang