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In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty relation presents an ultimate limit to the precision by which one can predict the outcome of position and momentum measurements on a particle. Heisenberg explicitly stated this relation for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Han Bao , Shenchao Jin , Junlei Duan , Suotang Jia , Klaus Mølmer , Heng Shen , Yanhong Xiao

Motivated by proposed thermometry measurement on an open quantum system, we present a simple model of an externally driven qubit interacting with a finite sized, fermion environment acting as calorimeter. The derived dynamics is governed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Antti Kupiainen , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Jukka Pekola , Kay Schwieger

Of indisputable relevance for non-equilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations theorems have been generalized to the framework of quantum thermodynamics, with the notion of work playing a key role in such contexts. The typical approach consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Thales Augusto Barbosa Pinto Silva , Renato Moreira Angelo

The time-energy uncertainty relation is often invoked as a heuristic explanation for virtual particles in interacting quantum field theories. However, this interpretation breaks down upon closer scrutiny for several reasons. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Achintya Sajeendran , Timothy C. Ralph

Uncertainty relations are shown to have nothing specific for quantum mechanics, being the general property valid for arbitrary function. A wave function of a particle having precisely defined position and momentum in QM simultaneously is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir K. Ignatovich

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation, quantifying a trade-off among average current, the associated fluctuation (precision), and entropy production (cost), has been formulated in nonequilibrium steady state and various stochastic systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Jincheng Lu , Zi Wang , Jiebin Peng , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang , Jie Ren

In the history of quantum mechanics, various types of uncertainty relationships have been introduced to accommodate different operational meanings of Heisenberg uncertainty principle. We derive an optimized entropic uncertainty relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Tristan Farrow , Wonmin Son

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are recently established relations between the relative uncertainty of time-integrated currents and entropy production in nonequilibrium systems. For small perturbations away from equilibrium,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Katarzyna Macieszczak , Kay Brandner , Juan P. Garrahan

Heisenberg introduced his famous uncertainty relations in a seminal 1927 paper entitled "The Physical Content of Quantum Kinematics and Mechanics". He motivated his arguments with a gedanken experiment, a gamma ray microscope to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Stephen Boughn , Marcel Reginatto

A universal formulation of uncertainty relations for quantum measurements is presented with additional focus on the representability of quantum observables by classical observables over a given state. Owing to the simplicity and operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Jaeha Lee

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that deviations from standard thermodynamics originate from the strong coupling to the bath, it is shown that in quantum mechanics, these deviations originate from the uncertainty principle and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Leonardo A. Pachon , Johan F. Triana , David Zueco , Paul Brumer

A general quantum theory encompassing Mechanics, Thermodynamics and irreversible dynamics is presented in two parts. The first part is concerned exclusively with the description of the states of any individual physical system. It is based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gian Paolo Beretta

Recent research on the thermodynamic arrow of time, at the microscopic scale, has questioned the universality of its direction. Theoretical studies showed that quantum correlations can be used to revert the natural heat flow (from the hot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Ivan Henao , Roberto M. Serra

Thermodynamic systems typically conserve quantities ("charges") such as energy and particle number. The charges are often assumed implicitly to commute with each other. Yet quantum phenomena such as uncertainty relations rely on…

In this paper we discuss some aspects of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, mostly from the point of view of non self-adjoint operators. Some equivalence results, and some refinements of the inequality, are deduced, and some relevant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Fabio Bagarello

We generalize the link between fluctuation theorems and thermodynamic uncertainty relations by deriving a bound on the variance of fluxes that satisfy an isometric fluctuation theorem. The resulting bound, which depends on the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Hadrien Vroylandt , Karel Proesmans , Todd R. Gingrich

It is generally believed that classical regime emerges as a limiting case of quantum theory. Exploring such quantum-classical correspondences in a more transparent manner is central to the deeper understanding of foundational aspects and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 A. R. Usha Devi , H. S. Karthik

Fluctuations are intrinsic to microscopic systems and impose fundamental limits on nonequilibrium precision, as captured by the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), which links current fluctuations to entropy production. While feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ryotaro Honma , Tan Van Vu

Minimization of the expectation value of energy under the constraints imposed by the uncertainty principle can be a convenient method of solving quantum-mechanical problems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 A. K. Khitrin

A generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relations is proposed. It is done by introducing of an additional term proportional to the interior energy into the standard thermodynamic uncertainty relation that leads to existence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , A. Ya. Tregubovich