Quantum uncertainty dynamics

DOI10.1007/S10701-023-00672-3MaRDI QIDQ6159460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Md Manirul Ali

Publication date 20 June 2023

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14620

zbMATH Keywords

entropic uncertaintyHeisenberg's uncertaintyquantum dynamicsquantum measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum entropies (81P17) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

Abstract: Quantum uncertainty relations have deep-rooted significance on the formalism of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations attracted a renewed interest for its applications in quantum information science. Robertson derived a general form of Heisenberg's uncertainty relations for a pair of arbitrary observables represented by Hermitian operators. In the present work, we discover a temporal version of the Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relations for the measurement of two observables at two different times, where the dynamical uncertainties crucially depend on the time evolution of the observables. The uncertainties not only depend on the choice of observables, but they also depend on the times at which the physical observables are measured. The time correlated two-time commutator dictates the trade-off between the dynamical uncertainties. We demonstrate the dynamics of these uncertainty relations for a spin-1/2 system and for a quantum harmonic oscillator. The temporal uncertainty relations discovered in this work can be experimentally verified with the present quantum technology.

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