Experimental Test of Universal Complementarity Relations

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Weston, Morgan M
Hall, Michael JW
Palsson, Matthew S
Wiseman, Howard M
Pryde, Geoff J
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2013
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Complementarity restricts the accuracy with which incompatible quantum observables can be jointly measured. Despite popular conception, the Heisenberg uncertainty relation does not quantify this principle. We report the experimental verification of universally valid complementarity relations, including an improved relation derived here. We exploit Einstein-Poldolsky-Rosen correlations between two photonic qubits to jointly measure incompatible observables of one. The product of our measurement inaccuracies is low enough to violate the widely used, but not universally valid, Arthurs-Kelly relation.

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Physical Review Letters
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© 2013 American Physical Society. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Mathematical sciences
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Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics
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