Uncertainty relation for the discrete Fourier transform

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.100.190401MaRDI QIDQ3107685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Serge Massar, Philippe Spindel

Publication date 26 December 2011

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0723

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: We derive an uncertainty relation for two unitary operators which obey a commutation relation of the form UV=exp[i phi] VU. Its most important application is to constrain how much a quantum state can be localised simultaneously in two mutually unbiased bases related by a Discrete Fourier Transform. It provides an uncertainty relation which smoothly interpolates between the well known cases of the Pauli operators in 2 dimensions and the continuous variables position and momentum. This work also provides an uncertainty relation for modular variables, and could find applications in signal processing. In the finite dimensional case the minimum uncertainty states, discrete analogues of coherent and squeezed states, are minimum energy solutions of Harper's equation, a discrete version of the Harmonic oscillator equation.

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