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arXiv:0910.3473 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Purity- and Gaussianity-bounded uncertainty relations

Aikaterini Mandilara, Evgueni Karpov, Nicolas J. Cerf

Published Jan 7, 2014• 7 citations
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Abstract

Bounded uncertainty relations provide the minimum value of the uncertainty assuming some additional information on the state. We derive analytically an uncertainty relation bounded by a pair of constraints, those of purity and Gaussianity. In a limiting case this uncertainty relation reproduces the purity-bounded derived by Man'ko and Dodonov and the Gaussianity-bounded one (Mandilara and Cerf 2012 Phys. Rev. A 86 030102R).

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/47/4/045302

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