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We propose an operational definition of complementarity, pinning down the concept originally introduced by Bohr. Two properties of a system are considered complementary if they cannot be simultaneously well defined. We further show that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Davide Rolino , Paolo Perinotti , Alessandro Tosini

We study a possible improvement of uncertainty relations. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation employs commutator of a pair of conjugate observables to set the limit of quantum measurement of the observables. The Schroedinger uncertainty…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yong Moon Park

Uncertainty is a fundamental and important concept in quantum mechanics. In this work, using the technique in matrix theory, we propose an uncertainty relation of four observables and show that the uncertainty constant is tight. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Minyi Huang

A general scheme to seek for the relations between entanglement and bservables is proposed in principle. In two-qubit systems with enough general Hamiltonian, we find the entanglement to be the functions of observables for six kinds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 An Min Wang

A new uncertainty relation (UR) is obtained for a system of N identical pure entangled particles if we use symmetrized observables when deriving the inequality. This new expression can be written in a form where we identify a term which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 Gustavo Rigolin

We report a universal improvement to the standard Robertson--Schr\"odinger uncertainty relation. Our result shows that the Robertson--Schr\"odinger lower bound can be supplemented by a new noncommutativity-induced term. This term represents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gen Kimura , Aina Mayumi , Hiromichi Ohno , Jaeha Lee , Dariusz Chruściński

The uncertainty relation for continuous variables due to Byalinicki-Birula and Mycielski expresses the complementarity between two $n$-uples of canonically conjugate variables $(x_1,x_2,\cdots x_n)$ and $(p_1,p_2,\cdots p_n)$ in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Anaelle Hertz , Luc Vanbever , Nicolas J. Cerf

A new lower boundary for the product of variances of two observables is obtained in the case, when these observables are entangled with the third one. This boundary can be higher than the Robertson--Schr\"odinger one. The special case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 V. V. Dodonov

Uncertainty relations provide constraints on how well the outcomes of incompatible measurements can be predicted, and, as well as being fundamental to our understanding of quantum theory, they have practical applications such as for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick J. Coles , Roger Colbeck , Li Yu , Michael Zwolak

We study the Schr\"odinger-Robertson uncertainty relations in an algebraic framework. Moreover, we show that some specific commutation relations imply new equalities, which are regarded as equality versions of well-known inequalities such…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Tohru Ozawa , Kazuya Yuasa

Entropic uncertainty relations provide an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the fundamental indeterminacy inherent in quantum mechanics. We propose more stringent quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qing-Hua Zhang , Cong Xu , Jing-Feng Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

The uncertainty principle can be understood as constraining the probability of winning a game in which Alice measures one of two conjugate observables, such as position or momentum, on a system provided by Bob, and he is to guess the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Joseph M. Renes

We derive entropic uncertainty relations for successive generalized measurements by using general descriptions of quantum measurement within two {distinctive operational} scenarios. In the first scenario, by merging {two successive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 Kyunghyun Baek , Wonmin Son

We present a notion of generalized entanglement which goes beyond the conventional definition based on quantum subsystems. This is accomplished by directly defining entanglement as a property of quantum states relative to a distinguished…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenza Viola , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma

One of the most important and useful entropic uncertainty relations concerns a $d$ dimensional system and two mutually unbiased measurements. In such a setting, the sum of two information entropies is lower bounded by $\ln d$. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Łukasz Rudnicki , Stephen P. Walborn

We derive a new memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation for non-degenerate Hermitian observables where both quantum correlations, in the form of conditional von Neumann entropy, and quantum discord between system and memory play an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Z. -H. Ma , C. -M. Yao , Z. -H. Chen , S. Severini , A. Serafini

Uncertainty principle is one of the cornerstones of quantum theory. In the literature, there are two types of uncertainty relations, the operator form concerning the variances of physical observables and the entropy form related to entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Ninety years ago in 1927, at an international congress in Como, Italy, Niels Bohr gave an address which is recognized as the first instance in which the term "complementarity", as a physical concept, was spoken publicly [1], revealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 X. -F. Qian , A. N. Vamivakas , J. H. Eberly

Uncertainties in successive measurements of general canonically conjugate variables are examined. Such operators are approached within a limiting procedure of the Pegg-Barnett type. Dealing with unbounded observables, we should take into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Alexey E. Rastegin

Analyzing general uncertainty relations one can find that there can exist such pairs of non-commuting observables $A$ and $B$ and such vectors that the lower bound for the product of standard deviations $\Delta A$ and $\Delta B$ calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Krzysztof Urbanowski