Complementarity and the uncertainty relations

Abstract

We formulate a general complementarity relation starting from any Hermitian operator with discrete non-degenerate eigenvalues. We then elucidate the relationship between quantum complementarity and the Heisenberg-Robertson's uncertainty relation. We show that they are intimately connected. Finally we exemplify the general theory with some specific suggested experiments.

9 pages, 4 figures, REVTeX, uses epsf.sty and multicol.sty