Error principle

DOI10.1023/A:1026616419979zbMATH Open0986.81503arXivquant-ph/9803051OpenAlexW4242846148MaRDI QIDQ1303473FDOQ1303473

Authors: D. M. Appleby 

Publication date: 17 June 2002

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of characterising the accuracy of, and disturbance caused by a joint measurement of position and momentum is investigated. In a previous paper the problem was discussed in the context of the unbiased measurements considered by Arthurs and Kelly. It is now shown, that suitably modified versions of these results hold for a much larger class of simultaneous measurements. The approach is a development of that adopted by Braginsky and Khalili in the case of a single measurement of position only. A distinction is made between the errors of retrodiction and the errors of prediction. Two error-error relationships and four error-disturbance relationships are derived, supplementing the Uncertainty Principle usually so-called. In the general case it is necessary to take into account the range of the measuring apparatus. Both the ideal case, of an instrument having infinite range, and the case of a real instrument, for which the range is finite, are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9803051

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertainty principleerror-disturbance relationshipserror-error relationships

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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