Minimal uncertainty and maximal information for quantum position and momentum
- 11 March 1987
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 20 (4) , 899-906
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/4/024
Abstract
In view of the recently proposed entropic uncertainty relations several characterisations of 'maximal information' and 'minimal uncertainty' are compared and applied to position and momentum. It is argued that a sufficiently refined entropic uncertainty relation might require the general concept of POV observables as used in stochastic quantum mechanics.Keywords
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