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The Uncertainty Relations in Quantum Mechanics


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1 FE 38, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 106, India
 

The notion of uncertainty in the description of a physical system has assumed prodigious importance in the development of quantum theory. Overcoming the early misunderstanding and confusion, the concept grew continuously and still remains an active and fertile research field. Curious new insights and correlations are gained and developed in the process with the introduction of new 'measures' of uncertainty or indeterminacy and the development of quantum measurement theory. In this article we intend to reach a fairly uptodate status report of this yet unfurling concept and its interrelation with some distinctive quantum features like nonlocality, steering and entanglement/ inseparability. Some recent controversies are discussed and the grey areas are mentioned.

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Complementarity, Entanglement, Harmonic Analysis, Uncertainty Relations, Wave-Particle Duality.
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D. Sen
FE 38, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 106, India

Abstract


The notion of uncertainty in the description of a physical system has assumed prodigious importance in the development of quantum theory. Overcoming the early misunderstanding and confusion, the concept grew continuously and still remains an active and fertile research field. Curious new insights and correlations are gained and developed in the process with the introduction of new 'measures' of uncertainty or indeterminacy and the development of quantum measurement theory. In this article we intend to reach a fairly uptodate status report of this yet unfurling concept and its interrelation with some distinctive quantum features like nonlocality, steering and entanglement/ inseparability. Some recent controversies are discussed and the grey areas are mentioned.

Keywords


Complementarity, Entanglement, Harmonic Analysis, Uncertainty Relations, Wave-Particle Duality.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv107%2Fi2%2F203-218