Complementarity and the uncertainty relations
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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.1874
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9904069
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvA..60.1874B
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Bz;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 4 figures, REVTeX, uses epsf.sty and multicol.sty