On a conjecture regarding Fisher information (Q277940)

Summary: Fisher's information measure \(I\) plays a very important role in diverse areas of theoretical physics. The associated measures \(I_x\) and \(I_p\), as functionals of quantum probability distributions defined in, respectively, coordinate and momentum spaces, are the protagonists of our present considerations. The product \(I_x I_p\) has been conjectured to exhibit a nontrivial lower bound in [\textit{M. J. W. Hall}, ``Quantum properties of classical Fisher information'', Phys. Rev. A 62, No. 1, Article ID 012107, 6 p. (2000; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.62.012107})]. More explicitly, this conjecture says that for any pure state of a particle in one dimension \(I_x I_p \geq 4\). We show here that such is not the case. This is illustrated, in particular, for pure states that are solutions to the free-particle Schrödinger equation. In fact, we construct a family of counterexamples to the conjecture, corresponding to time-dependent solutions of the free-particle Schrödinger equation. We also conjecture that any normalizable time-dependent solution of this equation verifies \(I_x I_p \to 0\) for \(t \to \infty\).