Experimental entropic uncertainty relations in dimensions three to five

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Main Authors: Serino, Laura, Chesi, Giovanni, Brecht, Benjamin, Maccone, Lorenzo, Macchiavello, Chiara, Silberhorn, Christine
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author Serino, Laura
Chesi, Giovanni
Brecht, Benjamin
Maccone, Lorenzo
Macchiavello, Chiara
Silberhorn, Christine
author_facet Serino, Laura
Chesi, Giovanni
Brecht, Benjamin
Maccone, Lorenzo
Macchiavello, Chiara
Silberhorn, Christine
contents We provide experimental validation of tight entropic uncertainty relations for the Shannon entropies of observables with mutually unbiased eigenstates in high dimensions. In particular, we address the cases of dimensions $d = 3$, $4$ and $5$ and consider from $2$ to $d+1$ mutually unbiased bases. The experiment is based on pulsed frequency bins measured with a multi-output quantum pulse gate, which can perform projective measurements on a complete high-dimensional basis in the time-frequency domain. Our results fit the theoretical predictions: the bound on the sum of the entropies is never violated and is saturated by the states that minimize the uncertainty relations.
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spellingShingle Experimental entropic uncertainty relations in dimensions three to five
Serino, Laura
Chesi, Giovanni
Brecht, Benjamin
Maccone, Lorenzo
Macchiavello, Chiara
Silberhorn, Christine
Quantum Physics
Optics
We provide experimental validation of tight entropic uncertainty relations for the Shannon entropies of observables with mutually unbiased eigenstates in high dimensions. In particular, we address the cases of dimensions $d = 3$, $4$ and $5$ and consider from $2$ to $d+1$ mutually unbiased bases. The experiment is based on pulsed frequency bins measured with a multi-output quantum pulse gate, which can perform projective measurements on a complete high-dimensional basis in the time-frequency domain. Our results fit the theoretical predictions: the bound on the sum of the entropies is never violated and is saturated by the states that minimize the uncertainty relations.
title Experimental entropic uncertainty relations in dimensions three to five
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05025