Number and phase: complementarity and joint measurement uncertainties



: Lahti P, Pellonpaa JP, Schultz J

Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

: 2017

: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL

: J PHYS A-MATH THEOR

: ARTN 375301

: 50

: 37

: 15

: 1751-8113

: 1751-8121

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


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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