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arxiv: 1607.08000 · v2 · pith:SL7J55KZnew · submitted 2016-07-27 · 🪐 quant-ph

Distribution of Standard deviation of an observable among superposed states

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keywords statesuperpositionobservableboundsdeviationdistributionincompatibilitystandard
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The standard deviation (SD) quantifies the spread of the observed values on a measurement of an observable. In this paper, we study the distribution of SD among the different components of a superposition state. It is found that the SD of an observable on a superposition state can be well bounded by the SDs of the superposed states. We also show that the bounds also serve as good bounds on coherence of a superposition state. As a further generalization, we give an alternative definition of incompatibility of two observables subject to a given state and show how the incompatibility subject to a superposition state is distributed.

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