Experimental Test of Residual Error-Disturbance Uncertainty Relations for Mixed Spin-½States
| Autor: | Bülent Demirel, Georg Sulyok, Stephan Sponar, Yuji Hasegawa, Masanao Ozawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review Letters. 117 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 0031-9007 |
| Popis: | The indeterminacy inherent in quantum measurements is an outstanding character of quantum theory, which manifests itself typically in the uncertainty principle. In the last decade, several universally valid forms of error-disturbance uncertainty relations were derived for completely general quantum measurements for arbitrary states. Subsequently, Branciard established a form that is optimal for spin measurements for some pure states. However, the bound in his inequality is not stringent for mixed states. One of the present authors recently derived a new bound tight in the corresponding mixed state case. Here, a neutron-optical experiment is carried out to investigate this new relation: it is tested whether error and disturbance of quantum measurements disappear or persist in mixing up the measured ensemble. The attainability of the new bound is experimentally observed, falsifying the tightness of Branciard's bound for mixed spin states. |
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