Uncertainty relations and approximate quantum error correction
arXiv:1605.01420 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.032314
Abstract
The uncertainty principle can be understood as constraining the probability of winning a game in which Alice measures one of two conjugate observables, such as position or momentum, on a system provided by Bob, and he is to guess the outcome. Two variants are possible: either Alice tells Bob which observable she measured, or he has to furnish guesses for both cases. Here I derive new uncertainty relations for both, formulated directly in terms of Bob's guessing probabilities. For the former these relate to the entanglement that can be recovered by action on Bob's system alone. This gives a condition for approximate quantum error correction in terms of the recoverability of "amplitude" and "phase" information, implicitly used in the recent construction of efficient quantum polar codes. I also find a tight relation on the guessing probabilities for the latter game, which has application to wave-particle duality relations.
v2: improved bounds for v2 of the uncertainty game, added connection to wave-particle relations. v1: 5 pages, 2 figures. Completely subsumes arXiv:1003.1150
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