Aspects of universally valid Heisenberg uncertainty relation
Author(s) -
Kazuo Fujikawa,
Koichiro Umetsu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress of theoretical and experimental physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 53
ISSN - 2050-3911
DOI - 10.1093/ptep/pts065
Subject(s) - relation (database) , uncertainty principle , physics , context (archaeology) , statistical physics , spin (aerodynamics) , quantum mechanics , computer science , thermodynamics , data mining , paleontology , biology , quantum
A numerical illustration of a universally valid Heisenberg uncertainty relation, which was proposed recently, is presented by using the experimental data on spin-measurements by J. Erhart, et al.[ Nature Phys. {\bf 8}, 185 (2012)]. This uncertainty relation is closely related to a modified form of the Arthurs-Kelly uncertainty relation which is also tested by the spin-measurements. The universally valid Heisenberg uncertainty relation always holds, but both the modified Arthurs-Kelly uncertainty relation and Heisenberg's error-disturbance relation proposed by Ozawa, which was analyzed in the original experiment, fail in the present context of spin-measurements, and the cause of their failure is identified with the assumptions of unbiased measurement and disturbance. It is also shown that all the universally valid uncertainty relations are derived from Robertson's relation and thus the essence of the uncertainty relation is exhausted by Robertson's relation as is widely accepted.
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