Entropic formulation of the uncertainty principle for the number and annihilation operators
Creators
- 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/10.1088/0031-8949/84/05/057001Additional details
Identifiers
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