Can Intense Quantum Light Beat Classical Uncertainty Relations?

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Main Authors: Willemann, Felipe Reibnitz, Antezza, Mauro, Feist, Johannes
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author Willemann, Felipe Reibnitz
Antezza, Mauro
Feist, Johannes
author_facet Willemann, Felipe Reibnitz
Antezza, Mauro
Feist, Johannes
contents Uncertainty relations are fundamental to quantum mechanics, encoding limits on the simultaneous measurement of conjugate observables. Violations of joint uncertainty bounds can certify entanglement -- a resource critical for quantum information protocols and increasingly relevant in strong-field physics. Here, we investigate the pairwise time-delay and frequency-bandwidth uncertainties for arbitrary multimode quantum states of light, deriving a general lower bound for their joint product. We find that the nonclassical correction scales inversely with the average photon number, a behavior rooted in the so-called ``monogamy of entanglement''. These results clarify the intensity scaling of quantum advantages in nonclassical light states and highlight the interplay between entanglement and photon statistics.
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spellingShingle Can Intense Quantum Light Beat Classical Uncertainty Relations?
Willemann, Felipe Reibnitz
Antezza, Mauro
Feist, Johannes
Quantum Physics
Optics
Uncertainty relations are fundamental to quantum mechanics, encoding limits on the simultaneous measurement of conjugate observables. Violations of joint uncertainty bounds can certify entanglement -- a resource critical for quantum information protocols and increasingly relevant in strong-field physics. Here, we investigate the pairwise time-delay and frequency-bandwidth uncertainties for arbitrary multimode quantum states of light, deriving a general lower bound for their joint product. We find that the nonclassical correction scales inversely with the average photon number, a behavior rooted in the so-called ``monogamy of entanglement''. These results clarify the intensity scaling of quantum advantages in nonclassical light states and highlight the interplay between entanglement and photon statistics.
title Can Intense Quantum Light Beat Classical Uncertainty Relations?
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09558