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The entropic uncertainty relations are a very active field of scientific inquiry. Their applications include quantum cryptography and studies of quantum phenomena such as correlations and non-locality. In this work we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Dariusz Kurzyk , Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

We develop a strong connection between maximally commuting bases of orthogonal unitary matrices and mutually unbiased bases. A necessary condition of the existence of mutually unbiased bases for any finite dimension is obtained. Then a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay , P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani Roychowdhury , Farrokh Vatan

Entropic uncertainty relations demonstrate the intrinsic uncertainty of nature from an information-theory perspective. Recently, a quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation for multiple measurements was proposed by Wu $et\ al.$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-Ming Fei

Mutually unbiased bases correspond to highly useful pairs of measurements in quantum information theory. In the smallest composite dimension, six, it is known that between three and seven mutually unbiased bases exist, with a decades-old…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Maria Prat Colomer , Luke Mortimer , Irénée Frérot , Máté Farkas , Antonio Acín

Measuring incomplete sets of mutually unbiased bases constitutes a sensible approach to the tomography of high-dimensional quantum systems. The unbiased nature of these bases optimizes the uncertainty hypervolume. However, imposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , Y. S. Teo , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , H. K. Ng , J. H. Chai , B. -G. Englert

Two equivalent ways of looking for mutually unbiased bases are discussed in this note. The passage from the search for d+1 mutually unbiased bases in C(d) to the search for d(d+1) vectors in C(d*d) satisfying constraint relations is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 Maurice Robert Kibler

Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) provide a standard tool in the verification of quantum states, especially when harnessing a complete set for optimal quantum state tomography. In this work, we investigate the detection of entanglement via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 B. C. Hiesmayr , D. McNulty , S. Baek , S. Singha Roy , J. Bae , D. Chruściński

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle shows that no one can specify the values of the non-commuting canonically conjugated variables simultaneously. However, the uncertainty relation is usually applied to two incompatible measurements. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Jun Zhang , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

Quantum measurements based on mutually unbiased bases (MUB) play crucial roles in foundational studies and quantum information processing. It is known that there exist inequivalent MUB, but little is known about their operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Wen-Zhe Yan , Yunting Li , Zhibo Hou , Huangjun Zhu , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We introduce a new information-theoretic formulation of quantum measurement uncertainty relations, based on the notion of relative entropy between measurement probabilities. In the case of a finite-dimensional system and for any approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

We study experimentally accessible lower bounds on entanglement measures based on entropic uncertainty relations. Experimentally quantifying entanglement is highly desired for applications of quantum simulation experiments to fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Bjarne Bergh , Martin Gärttner

The uncertainty principle can be expressed in entropic terms, also taking into account the role of entanglement in reducing uncertainty. The information exclusion principle bounds instead the correlations that can exist between the outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Patrick J. Coles , Marco Piani

We conjecture new uncertainty relations which restrict correlations between results of measurements performed by two separated parties on a shared quantum state. The first uncertainty relation bounds the sum of two mutual informations when…

In this contribution we relate two different key concepts: mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) and entanglement; in particular we focus on bound entanglement, i.e. highly mixed states which cannot be distilled by local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Beatrix C. Hiesmayr , Wolfgang Löffler

The question of determining the maximal number of mutually unbiased bases in dimension six has received much attention since their introduction to quantum information theory, but a definitive answer has still not been found. In this paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Butterley , William Hall

We discuss the relationship between entropic uncertainty relations and entanglement. We present two methods for deriving separability criteria in terms of entropic uncertainty relations. Especially we show how any entropic uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Otfried Guehne , Maciej Lewenstein

In this paper we derive a new bound on the secret key-rate of the High Dimensional BB84 protocol operating with multiple mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). To our knowledge, our proof is the first for this protocol that is both general (in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Trevor N. Thomas , Walter O. Krawec

Uncertainty relations and quantum entanglement are pivotal concepts in quantum theory. Beyond their fundamental significance in shaping our understanding of the quantum world, they also underpin crucial applications in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yundu Zhao , Shan Huang , Shengjun Wu

The uncertainty relation, as one of the fundamental principles of quantum physics, captures the incompatibility of noncommuting observables in the preparation of quantum states. In this work, we derive two strong and universal uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zhi-Xin Chen , Hui Wang , Jun-Li Li , Qiu-Cheng Song , Cong-Feng Qiao

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle forms a fundamental element of quantum mechanics. Uncertainty relations in terms of entropies were initially proposed to deal with conceptual shortcomings in the original formulation of the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Patrick J. Coles , Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel , Stephanie Wehner