Minimum uncertainty for antisymmetric wave functions

DOI10.1023/A:1007464229188MaRDI QIDQ1386544zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors L. L. Salcedo

Publication date 18 February 1999

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9706015

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformuncertainty principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50)

Abstract: We study how the entropic uncertainty relation for position and momentum conjugate variables is minimized in the subspace of one-dimensional antisymmetric wave functions. Based partially on numerical evidence and partially on analytical results, a conjecture is presented for the sharp bound and for the minimizers. Conjectures are also presented for the corresponding sharp Hausdorff-Young inequality.

Review text

Let \(G(x)= -x\log x\). The author conjectures that for every odd \(\psi\in L^2(\mathbb{R})\) of norm \(1\) we have \[ \int\bigl[G(|\psi|^2)+ G(|\widehat\psi|^2)\bigr]\geq 2(1- \log 2). \] Some numerical evidence in support of this is presented. It is shown rigorously that a lower bound on the right cannot be greater. There are many quasimathematical speculations ``a propos but of little relevance to the essence.

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