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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 78, 2014
Wigner 111 – Colourful & Deep Scientific Symposium
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Article Number | 01002 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Wigner’s Heritage (plenary talks) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147801002 | |
Published online | 25 September 2014 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147801002
Quantum rms error and Heisenberg’s error-disturbance relation
Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, UK
a e-mail: paul.busch@york.ac.uk
Published online: 25 September 2014
Reports on experiments recently performed in Vienna [Erhard et al, Nature Phys. 8, 185 (2012)] and Toronto [Rozema et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 100404 (2012)] include claims of a violation of Heisenberg’s error-disturbance relation. In contrast, a Heisenberg-type tradeoff relation for joint measurements of position and momentum has been formulated and proven in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160405 (2013)]. Here I show how the apparent conflict is resolved by a careful consideration of the quantum generalization of the notion of root-mean-square error. The claim of a violation of Heisenberg’s principle is untenable as it is based on a historically wrong attribution of an incorrect relation to Heisenberg, which is in fact trivially violated. We review a new general trade-off relation for the necessary errors in approximate joint measurements of incompatible qubit observables that is in the spirit of Heisenberg’s intuitions. The experiments mentioned may directly be used to test this new error inequality.
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