Published November 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Entropic formulation of the uncertainty principle for the number and annihilation operators

  • 1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Irkutsk State University, Gagarin Bv. 20, Irkutsk 664003 (Russian Federation)

Description

An entropic approach to formulating uncertainty relations for the number-annihilation pair is considered. We construct some normal operator that traces the annihilation operator as well as commuting quadratures with a complete system of common eigenfunctions. Expanding the measured wave function with respect to them, one obtains a relevant probability distribution. Another distribution is naturally generated by measuring the number operator. Due to the Riesz-Thorin theorem, there exists a nontrivial inequality between corresponding functionals of the above distributions. We find the bound in this inequality and further derive uncertainty relations in terms of both the Rényi and Tsallis entropies. Entropic uncertainty relations for a continuous distribution as well as relations for a discretized one are presented. (comment)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/84/05/057001

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica Scripta (Online)
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
[6 p.]
ISSN
1402-4896

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44004696
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANNIHILATION; ANNIHILATION OPERATORS; DISTRIBUTION; EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; QUADRATURES; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES