Quantum states and Hardy's formulation of the uncertainty principle: a symplectic approach

DOI10.1007/S11005-007-0150-6zbMATH Open1113.81090arXivquant-ph/0703063OpenAlexW2147145974MaRDI QIDQ883191FDOQ883191

Authors: Franz Luef, Maurice de Gosson 

Publication date: 31 May 2007

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

Abstract: We express the condition for a phase space Gaussian to be the Wigner distribution of a mixed quantum state in terms of the symplectic capacity of the associated Wigner ellipsoid. Our results are motivated by Hardy's formulation of the uncertainty principle for a function and its Fourier transform. As a consequence we are able to state a more general form of Hardy's theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703063

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zbMATH Keywords

density operatorpositivityWigner distributionHardy's uncertainty principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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