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Robertson-Schroedinger Uncertainty Relation Refined by Skew Information

Quantum Physics 2013-03-27 v1

Abstract

We report a refinement of Robertson-Schroedinger uncertainty relation via Wigner-Yanase skew information. Besides the well known quantum uncertainty arising from the noncommutativity of observables, there is classical uncertainty arising from the mixedness of the states that is quantified by the difference between the variance and the skew information. Our refined uncertainty relation for canonical observables is saturated by all the Gaussian states, pure or mixed, and thus provides an alternative measure for the non-Gaussianity of quantum states. Generalizations to the case of metric adjusted skew information are presented, unifying and refining most of previous results.

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@article{arxiv.1303.6404,
  title  = {Robertson-Schroedinger Uncertainty Relation Refined by Skew Information},
  author = {Sixia Yu and C. H. Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6404},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages; Comments are welcome

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