Published August 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Upper bound on our knowledge about noncommuting observables for a qubit system

  • 1. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)
  • 2. ERATO Macroscopic Quantum Control Project, JST, Tokyo 113-8656 (Japan)

Description

A trade-off relation on our knowledge about two noncommuting observables of a qubit system in simultaneous measurement is formulated. The obtained inequality offers a quantitative information-theoretic representation of Bohr's principle of complementarity, and can be interpreted as a trade-off relation on the asymptotic accuracy of the maximum-likelihood estimation of the probability distributions of observables

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 022325-022325.5
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39033689
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUBITS
Descriptors DEC
INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUANTUM INFORMATION

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