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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

Quantum states can be subjected to classical measurements, whose incompatibility, or uncertainty, can be quantified by a comparison of certain entropies. There is a long history of such entropy inequalities between position and momentum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rupert L. Frank , Elliott H. Lieb

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf

The uncertainty principle and entanglement are two fundamental, but yet not well understood, features of quantum theory. The uncertainty relation reflects the capability limit in acquiring the knowledge of different physical properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Uncertainty relations lie at the very core of quantum mechanics, and form the cornerstone of essentially all quantum cryptographic applications. In particular, they play an important role in cryptographic protocols in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Stephanie Wehner , Andreas Winter

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao

Quantum uncertainty relations are typically analyzed for a pair of incompatible observables, however, the concept per se naturally extends to situations of more than two observables. In this work, we obtain tripartite quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Hazhir Dolatkhah , Saeed Haddadi , Soroush Haseli , Mohammad Reza Pourkarimi , Mario Ziman

The uncertainty of a quantum state is given by the composition of two components. The first is called the quantum component and is given by the probability distribution of an observable relative to the state. The second is the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Stan Gudder

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

We review the properties of the quantum relative entropy function and discuss its application to problems of classical and quantum information transfer and to quantum data compression. We then outline further uses of relative entropy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

Uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In this work, we derive two uncertainty equalities, which hold for all pairs of incompatible observables. We also obtain an uncertainty relation in weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Qiu-Cheng Song , Cong-Feng Qiao

The uncertainty principle, which bounds the uncertainties involved in obtaining precise outcomes for two complementary variables defining a quantum particle, is a crucial aspect in quantum mechanics. Recently, the uncertainty principle in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Xiao-Ye Xu , Ke Li , Guang-Can Guo

Uncertainty relations have become the trademark of quantum theory since they were formulated by Bohr and Heisenberg. This review covers various generalizations and extensions of the uncertainty relations in quantum theory that involve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Lukasz Rudnicki

The uncertainty relation is a distinguishing feature of quantum theory, characterizing the incompatibility of noncommuting observables in the preparation of quantum states. Recently, many uncertainty relations were proposed with improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Zhi-Xin Chen , Jun-Li Li , Qiu-Cheng Song , Hui Wang , S. M. Zangi , Cong-Feng Qiao

This paper presents the uncertainty related to position and momentum localization of a quantum state in terms of entropic uncertainty relations. We slightly improve the inequality given in [Phys. Rev. A 74, 052101 (2006)] and introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Łukasz Rudnicki

Indeterminacy associated with probing of a quantum state is commonly expressed through spectral distances (metric) featured in the outcomes of repeated experiments. Here we express it as an effective amount (measure) of distinct outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ivan Horváth

Quantum measurements are inherently probabilistic and quantum theory often forbids to precisely predict the outcomes of simultaneous measurements. This phenomenon is captured and quantified through uncertainty relations. Although studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Carlos de Gois , Kiara Hansenne , Otfried Gühne

Various measures have been suggested recently for quantifying the coherence of a quantum state with respect to a given basis. We first use two of these, the l_1-norm and relative entropy measures, to investigate tradeoffs between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Shuming Cheng , Michael J. W. Hall

Uncertainty relations involving complementary observables are one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. Aside from their fundamental significance, they play an important role in practical applications, such as detection of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Fabricio Toscano , Daniel S. Tasca , Łukasz Rudnicki , Stephen P. Walborn

In this contribution I review rigorous formulations of a variety of limitations of measurability in quantum mechanics. To this end I begin with a brief presentation of the conceptual tools of modern measurement theory. I will make precise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Paul Busch