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Tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubits

Authors :
Abbott, Alastair A.
Alzieu, Pierre-Louis
Hall, Michael J. W.
Branciard, Cyril
Source :
Mathematics 4(1), 8, 2016
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

The well-known Robertson-Schr\"odinger uncertainty relations have state-dependent lower bounds which are trivial for certain states. We present a general approach to deriving tight state-independent uncertainty relations for qubit measurements that completely characterise the obtainable uncertainty values. This approach can give such relations for any number of observables, and we do so explicitly for arbitrary pairs and triples of qubit measurements. We show how these relations can be transformed into equivalent tight entropic uncertainty relations. More generally, they can be expressed in terms of any measure of uncertainty that can be written as a function of the expectation value of the observable for a given state.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures

Subjects

Subjects :
Quantum Physics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Mathematics 4(1), 8, 2016
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1512.02383
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/math4010008