Entropy on the von Neumann lattice and its evaluation

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2002-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0202092v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

14 pages, no figures; J. Phys. A, in press

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/35/10/305

Based on the recently introduced averaging procedure in phase space, a new type of entropy is defined on the von Neumann lattice. This quantity can be interpreted as a measure of uncertainty associated with simultaneous measurement of the position and momentum observables in the discrete subset of the phase space. Evaluating for a class of the coherent states, it is shown that this entropy takes a stationary value for the ground state, modulo a unit cell of the lattice in such a class. This value for the ground state depends on the ratio of the position lattice spacing and the momentum lattice spacing. It is found that its minimum is realized for the perfect square lattice, i.e., absence of squeezing. Numerical evaluation of this minimum gives 1.386....

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