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American Journal of Physics

Uncertainty Principle and Normal Operators

MALCOLM M. BERSOHN

Published Jan 1, 1966• 0 citations
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Abstract

The expression for the uncertainty principle applied to normal operators is derived. This treatment includes Hermitian operators as a special case.
DOI
10.1119/1.1972751

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