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On Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the CCR

Reinhard Honegger

Published Mar 1, 1993• 7 citations

Abstract

Abstract Realizing the canonical commutation relations (CCR) [N, Θ] = - i as N = - i d/dϑ and Θ to be the multiplication by ϑ on the Hilbert space of square integrable functions on [0, 2π], in the physical literature there seems to be some contradictions concerning the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ⟨ΔN⟨ ⟨ΔΘ⟨ ≥ 1/4. The difficulties may be overcome by a rigorous mathematical analysis of the domain of state vectors, for which Heisenberg's inequality is valid. It is shown that the exponentials exp {i t N} and exp{i sΘ} satisfy some commutation relations, which are not the Weyl relations. Finally, the present work aims at a better understanding of the phase and number operators in non-Fock representations.

DOI: 10.1515/zna-1993-0301

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