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An efficient method for assessing the quality of quantum state tomography is developed. Special attention is paid to the tomography of multipartite systems in terms of unbiased measurements. Although the overall reconstruction errors of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , A. B. Klimov , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Mario Berta , Stephanie Wehner , Mark M. Wilde

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has recently led to general measurement uncertainty relations for quantum systems: incompatible observables can be measured jointly or in sequence only with some unavoidable approximation, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

Measurement uncertainty relations are quantitative bounds on the errors in an approximate joint measurement of two observables. They can be seen as a generalization of the error/disturbance tradeoff first discussed heuristically by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Paul Busch , Pekka Lahti , Reinhard F Werner

In presence of quantum memory [M. Berta, M. Christandl, R. Colbeck, J.M. Renes, and R. Renner, Nature Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] the lower bound of entropic uncertainty relation depends on amount of entanglement between the particle (on which two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 T. Pramanik , P. Chowdhury

According to the entropy accumulation theorem, proving the unconditional security of a device-independent quantum key distribution protocol reduces to deriving tradeoff functions, i.e., bounds on the single-round von Neumann entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Michele Masini , Stefano Pironio , Erik Woodhead

We generalize, improve and unify theorems of Rumin, and Maassen--Uffink about classical entropies associated to quantum density matrices. These theorems refer to the classical entropies of the diagonals of a density matrix in two different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rupert L. Frank , Elliott H. Lieb

We construct inequalities between R\'{e}nyi entropy and the indexes of coincidence of probability distributions, based on which we obtain improved state-dependent entropic uncertainty relations for general symmetric informationally complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shan Huang , Zeng-Bing Chen , Shengjun Wu

Inspired by the many applications of mutually unbiased Hadamard matrices, we study mutually unbiased weighing matrices. These matrices are studied for small orders and weights in both the real and complex setting. Our results make use of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Darcy Best , Hadi Kharaghani , Hugh Ramp

Mutually unbiased bases are an important tool in many applications of quantum information theory. We present a new algorithm for finding the mutually unbiased bases for two-qubit systems. We derive a system of four equations in the Galois…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Iulia Ghiu

We consider the question of entropic uncertainty relations for prime power dimensions. In order to improve upon such uncertainty relations for higher dimensional quantum systems, we derive a tight lower bound amount of entropy for multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Jakob Funder

We consider particular entanglement of two particles whose state vectors are in bases that are mutually unbiased (MUB), i.e. "that exhibit maximum degree of incompatibility" (J.Schwinger,Nat. Ac. Sci. (USA), 1960)). We use this link between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 M. Revzen , F. C. Khanna

We provide novel bounds on average treatment effects (on the treated) that are valid under an unconfoundedness assumption. Our bounds are designed to be robust in challenging situations, for example, when the conditioning variables take on…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-12 Sokbae Lee , Martin Weidner

One unique feature of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that the outcomes of two incompatible measurements cannot simultaneously achieve arbitrary precision. In an information-theoretic context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jian Xing , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Yan-Chun Chang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan , Xin-Yu Pan

Entropic uncertainty relation (EUR) formulates the restriction of the inherent uncertainty of quantum mechanics from the information-theoretic perspective. A tighter lower bound for uncertainty relations can provide information-theoretic…

Almost four decades ago, Bergman and Milton independently showed that the isotropic effective electric permittivity of a two-phase composite material with a given volume fraction is constrained to lie within lens-shaped regions in the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Christian Kern , Owen D. Miller , Graeme W. Milton

We construct a multi-observable uncertainty equality as well as an inequality based on the sum of standard deviations in the qubit system. The obtained equality indicates that the uncertainty relation can be expressed more accurately, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Xiao Zheng , Shaoqiang Ma , Guofeng Zhang

We study best-policy identification for finite-horizon risk-sensitive reinforcement learning under the entropic risk measure. Recent work established a constant gap in the exponential horizon dependence between lower and upper bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Amer Essakine , Claire Vernade

The uncertainty relation lies at the heart of quantum theory and behaves as a non-classical constraint on the indeterminacies of incompatible observables in a system. In the literature, many experiments have been devoted to the test of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shuang Wang , Fang-Xia Meng , Hui Wang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Certifying entanglement is an important step in the development of many quantum technologies, especially for higher-dimensional systems, where entanglement promises increased capabilities for quantum communication and computation. A key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Nicky Kai Hong Li , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis