A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Number and phase: complementarity and joint measurement uncertainties



Authors: Lahti P, Pellonpaa JP, Schultz J

Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Publication year: 2017

Journal: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL

Journal acronym: J PHYS A-MATH THEOR

Article number: ARTN 375301

Volume: 50

Issue: 37

Number of pages: 15

ISSN: 1751-8113

eISSN: 1751-8121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa83bc


Abstract
We show that number and canonical phase (of a single mode optical field) are complementary observables. We also bound the measurement uncertainty region for their approximate joint measurements.



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