Complementarity and the uncertainty relations

Gunnar Björk, Jonas Söderholm, Alexei Trifonov, Tedros Tsegaye, and Anders Karlsson
Phys. Rev. A 60, 1874 – Published 1 September 1999
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Abstract

We formulate a general complementarity relation starting from any Hermitian operator with discrete nondegenerate eigenvalues. We then elucidate the relationship between quantum complementarity and the Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation. We show that they are intimately connected. Finally we exemplify the general theory with some specific suggested experiments.

  • Received 16 April 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1874

©1999 American Physical Society

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Gunnar Björk*, Jonas Söderholm, Alexei Trifonov, Tedros Tsegaye, and Anders Karlsson

  • Department of Electronics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Electrum 229, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden

  • *Electronic address: gunnarb@ele.kth.se
  • Permanent address: Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, 26 Polytekhnicheskaya, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Vol. 60, Iss. 3 — September 1999

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