MINIMUM UNCERTAINTY AND ENTANGLEMENT

Dass, HarI ND and Tabish, Quereshi and Sheel, Aditi (2013) MINIMUM UNCERTAINTY AND ENTANGLEMENT. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B, 27 (16).

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Abstract

We address the question, does a system A being entangled with another system B, put any constraints on the Heisenberg uncertainty relation (or the Schrodinger-Robertson inequality)? We find that the equality of the uncertainty relation cannot be reached for any two noncommuting observables, for finite dimensional Hilbert spaces if the Schmidt rank of the entangled state is maximal. One consequence is that the lower bound of the uncertainty relation can never be attained for any two observables for qubits, if the state is entangled. For infinite-dimensional Hilbert space too, we show that there is a class of physically interesting entangled states for which no two noncommuting observables can attain the minimum uncertainty equality.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B
Publisher:	WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
Additional Information:	Copyrright of this article is belongs to World Scientific Publishing
Keywords:	Entanglement; uncertainty relation; mixed states
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Theoretical Studies (Ceased to exist at the end of 2003)
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2013 11:34
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2013 11:46
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47313

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