TY - JOUR
T1 - Geometry of Uncertainty Relations for Linear Combinations of Position and Momentum
AU - Kechrimparis, Spyridon
AU - Weigert, Stefan Ludwig Otto
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PY - 2017/12/11
Y1 - 2017/12/11
N2 - For a quantum particle with a single degree of freedom, we derive preparational sum and product uncertainty relations satisfied by N linear combinations of position and momentum observables. The bounds depend on their degree of incompatibility defined by the area of a parallelogram in an N-dimensional coefficient space. Maximal incompatibility occurs if the observables give rise to regular polygons in phase space. We also conjecture a Hirschman-type uncertainty relation for N observables linear in position and momentum, generalizing the original relation which lower-bounds the sum of the position andmomentum Shannon entropies of the particle.
AB - For a quantum particle with a single degree of freedom, we derive preparational sum and product uncertainty relations satisfied by N linear combinations of position and momentum observables. The bounds depend on their degree of incompatibility defined by the area of a parallelogram in an N-dimensional coefficient space. Maximal incompatibility occurs if the observables give rise to regular polygons in phase space. We also conjecture a Hirschman-type uncertainty relation for N observables linear in position and momentum, generalizing the original relation which lower-bounds the sum of the position andmomentum Shannon entropies of the particle.
U2 - 10.1088/1751-8121/aa9cfc
DO - 10.1088/1751-8121/aa9cfc
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-8113
VL - 51
JO - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
JF - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
IS - 2
M1 - 025303
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