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We explore the different meanings of "quantum uncertainty" contained in Heisenberg's seminal paper from 1927, and also some of the precise definitions that were explored later. We recount the controversy about "Anschaulichkeit",…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Reinhard F. Werner , Terry Farrelly

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

The Heisenberg position-momentum uncertainty principle shares with the equivalence principle the role of main pillar of our current description of nature. However, in its original formulation it is inconsistent with special relativity, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Valerio Astuti

A survey on the generalizations of Heisenberg uncertainty relation and a general scheme for their entangled extensions to several states and observables is presented. The scheme is illustrated on the examples of one and two states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 D. A. Trifonov

In the present work we are concerned with the development of a new uncertainty principle based on wavelet transform in the Clifford analysis/algebras framework. We precisely derive a sharp Heisenberg-type uncertainty principle for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Hicham Banouh , Anouar Ben Mabrouk

This is an article written in a popular science style, in which I will explain: (1) the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle, expressing the experimental incompatibility of certain properties of micro-physical entities; (2) the Compton…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

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

In two articles, the authors claim that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle limits the precision of simultaneous measurements of the position and velocity of a particle and refer to experimental evidence that supports their claim. It is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-07-12 Elias P. Gyftopoulos

In this work, we examine the paradox proposed by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR). They argued that since one may know the exact momentum of a particle without measurement and subsequently measure its position, a contradiction with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Henryk Gzyl

This note is sketching a simple and natural mathematical construction for explaining the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. It employs nonstandard analysis and is based on Feynman's interpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Michel Fliess

In this paper we look at a particular realization of Popper's thought experiment with correlated quantum particles and argue that, from the point of view of a nonlinear quantum physics and contrary to the orthodox interpretation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 António Cardoso

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be sharply determined simultaneously. Standard-deviation and entropic formulations capture the spread of the probability distribution but say…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jia-Yi Lin , Xin-Yu Li , Wei Wang , Shengjun Wu

An inequality refining the lower bound for a periodic (Breitenberger) uncertainty constant is proved for a wide class of functions. A connection of uncertainty constants for periodic and non-periodic functions is extended to this class. A…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Elena A. Lebedeva

Generalized uncertainty principles are effective changes to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that emerge in several quantum gravity models. In the present letter, we study the consequences that two classes of these modifications yield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Timo J. Kärkkäinen , Luca Marzola

Recently, universally valid uncertainty relations have been established to set a precision limit for any instruments given a disturbance constraint in a form more general than the one originally proposed by Heisenberg. One of them leads to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa

The variance of an observable in a quantum state is usually used to describe Heisenberg uncertainty relation. For mixed states, the variance includes quantum uncertainty and classical uncertainty. By means of the skew information and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 D. Li , X. Li , F. Wang , X. Li , H. Huang , L. C. Kwek

The aim of this paper is to prove some new uncertainty principles for the windowed Hankel transform. They include uncertainty principle for orthonormal sequence, local uncertainty principle, logarithmic uncertainty principle and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Wen-Biao Gao , Bing-Zhao Li

We show how a number of well-known uncertainty principles for the Fourier transform, such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the Donoho--Stark uncertainty principle, and Meshulam's non-abelian uncertainty principle, have little to do…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Avi Wigderson , Yuval Wigderson

The Wigner-Yanase skew information stands for the uncertainty about the information on the values of observables not commuting with the conserved quantity. The Wigner-Yanase skew information-based uncertainty relations can be regarded as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-ming Fei

Incompatible observables can be approximated by compatible observables in joint measurement or measured sequentially, with constrained accuracy as implied by Heisenberg's original formulation of the uncertainty principle. Recently, Busch,…