Abstract
New uncertainty relations in quantum mechanics are derived. They express restrictions imposed by quantum theory on probability distributions of canonically conjugate variables in terms of corresponding information entropies. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation follows from those inequalities and so does the Gross-Nelson inequality.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Babenko, K.I.: Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Ser. Mat.25, 531 (1961)
Beckner, W.: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.72, 638 (1975)
Gross, L.: Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities (to appear in Amer. J. of Math)
Bialynicki-Birula, I., Mycielski, J.: Wave equations with logarithmic nonlinearities. Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. Cl. III.23, 461 (1975)
Zygmund, A.: Trigonometric series, Vol. II, p. 101. Cambridge University Press 1959
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Communicated by R. Haag
Research partly supported by the NSF Grant 36217.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Białynicki-Birula, I., Mycielski, J. Uncertainty relations for information entropy in wave mechanics. Commun.Math. Phys. 44, 129–132 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608825
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608825