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In multiparameter quantum estimation, the optimal measurements for different parameters encoded in a quantum state are in general incompatible, giving rise to nontrivial tradeoffs between their attainable precisions. Understanding and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Lingna Wang , Hongzhen Chen , Haidong Yuan

Entropic uncertainty relations $H(A)+H(B)\geqslant \gamma$ give a nonzero lower bound $\gamma$ to the sum of the Shannon entropies $H$ of the outcome probabilities of incompatible observables $A$ and $B$. They are better than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Riccardi , Lorenzo Maccone

We show that Robertson uncertainty relation can be refined for q-commutator which is defined by $[A,B]_q = AB-qBA$, where $A, B$ are self-adjoint operators and real number $q\in \mathbb{R}$. The coefficient is represented by the eigenvalues…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Kenjiro Yanagi

We employ quantum relative entropy to establish the relation between the measurement uncertainty and its disturbance on a state in the presence (and absence) of quantum memory. For two incompatible observables, we present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Jun Zhang , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

It is shown that all the known uncertainty relations are the secondary consequences of Robertson's relation. The basic idea is to use the Heisenberg picture so that the time development of quantum mechanical operators incorporate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Kazuo Fujikawa

Heisenberg-Robertson's uncertainty relation expresses a limitation in the possible preparations of the system by giving a lower bound to the product of the variances of two observables in terms of their commutator. Notably, it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Lorenzo Maccone , Arun K. Pati

It is known that the variance and entropy of quantum observables decompose into intrinsically quantum and classical contributions. Here a general method of constructing quantum-classical decompositions of resources such as uncertainty is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Michael J. W. Hall

The uncertainty principle is one of the comprehensive and fundamental concept in quantum theory. This principle states that it is not possible to simultaneously measure two incompatible observatories with high accuracy. Uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Soroush Haseli

The uncertainty principle sets limit on our ability to predict the values of two incompatible observables measured on a quantum particle simultaneously. This principle can be stated in various forms. In quantum information theory, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 H. Dolatkhah , S. Haseli , S. Salimi , S. A. Khorashad

The Schr{\"o}dinger-Robertson inequality generally provides a stronger bound on the product of uncertainties for two noncommuting observables than the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, and as such, it can yield a stricter separability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyunchul Nha

Characteristic uncertainty relations and their related squeezed states are briefly reviewed and compared in accordance with the generalizations of three equivalent definitions of the canonical coherent states. The standard SU(1,1) coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. A. Trifonov

Uncertainty principle is one of the central concepts in quantum theory. Different forms of this particular principle have been discoursed in various foundational and information theoretic topics. In the discrete input-output scenario the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Prathik J Cherian , Amit Mukherjee , Arup Roy , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

The Heisenberg position-momentum uncertainty relation is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. However, its standard formulation is not fully consistent with special relativity. While partial understanding has been achieved in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Jaume Gin\' e , Daniel Chemisana

Traditional forms of quantum uncertainty relations are invariably based on the standard deviation. This can be understood in the historical context of simultaneous development of quantum theory and mathematical statistics. Here, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Gautam Sharma , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Sk Sazim , Arun Kumar Pati

Various theories that aim at unifying gravity with quantum mechanics suggest modifications of the Heisenberg algebra for position and momentum. From the perspective of quantum mechanics, such modifications lead to new uncertainty relations…

The optimal state-independent lower bounds for the sum of variances or deviations of observables are of significance for the growing number of experiments that reach the uncertainty limited regime. We present a framework for computing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Lin Zhang , Shunlong Luo , Shao-Ming Fei , Junde Wu

The notions of error and disturbance appearing in quantum uncertainty relations are often quantified by the discrepancy of a physical quantity from its ideal value. However, these real and ideal values are not the outcomes of simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Joseph M. Renes , Volkher B. Scholz , Stefan Huber

We derive an uncertainty relation for two unitary operators which obey a commutation relation of the form UV=exp[i phi] VU. Its most important application is to constrain how much a quantum state can be localised simultaneously in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Serge Massar , Philippe Spindel

Coherence of a quantum state intrinsically depends on the choice of the reference basis. A natural question to ask is the following: if we use two or more incompatible reference bases, can~there be some trade-off relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati , Manabendra Nath Bera

The example of nonpositive trace-class Hermitian operator for which Robertson-Schroedinger uncertainty relation is fulfilled is presented. The partial scaling criterion of separability of multimode continuous variable system is discussed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Olga V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria