The Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05315v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:03:30 GMT
• Title: The Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Processes
• Authors: Yunlong Xiao, Kuntal Sengupta, Siren Yang, and Gilad Gour
• Abstract summary: We show that the uncertainty principle can be reformulated to include process-measurements that are performed on quantum channels. We obtain expressions that generalize the Maassen-Uffink uncertainty relation and the universal uncertainty relations from quantum states to quantum channels.
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• Abstract: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which imposes intrinsic restrictions on our ability to predict the outcomes of incompatible quantum measurements to arbitrary precision, demonstrates one of the key differences between classical and quantum mechanics. The physical systems considered in the uncertainty principle are static in nature and described mathematically with a quantum state in a Hilbert space. However, many physical systems are dynamic in nature and described with the formalism of a quantum channel. In this paper, we show that the uncertainty principle can be reformulated to include process-measurements that are performed on quantum channels. Since both quantum states and quantum measurements are themselves special cases of quantum channels, our formalism encapsulates the uncertainty principle in its utmost generality. More specifically, we obtain expressions that generalize the Maassen-Uffink uncertainty relation and the universal uncertainty relations from quantum states to quantum channels.

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