Better Heisenberg limits, coherence bounds, and energy-time tradeoffs via quantum Rényi information

Abstract

An uncertainty relation for the Rényi entropies of conjugate quantum observables is used to obtain a strong Heisenberg limit of the form $\mathrm{RMSE}\ge f(\alpha )/(⟨N⟩+\frac{1}{2})$, bounding the root mean square error of any estimate of a random optical phase shift in terms of average photon number, where $f(\alpha )$ is maximised for non-Shannon entropies. Related simple yet strong uncertainty relations linking phase uncertainty to the photon number distribution, such as $\Delta \Phi \ge {\max }_n{p}_n$, are also obtained. These results are significantly strengthened via upper and lower bounds on the Rényi mutual information of quantum communication channels, related to asymmetry and convolution, and applied to the estimation (with prior information) of unitary shift parameters such as rotation angle and time, and to obtain strong bounds on measures of coherence. Sharper Rényi entropic uncertainty relations are also obtained, including time-energy uncertainty relations for Hamiltonians with discrete spectra. In the latter case almost-periodic Rényi entropies are introduced for nonperiodic systems.

arXiv comment17+8 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor clarifications, close to accepted version

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