Robertson-Schroedinger Uncertainty Relation Refined by Skew Information

TL;DR

This paper refines the Robertson-Schroedinger uncertainty relation using Wigner-Yanase skew information, providing a more comprehensive measure of quantum and classical uncertainties, and characterizes non-Gaussianity of quantum states.

Contribution

It introduces a refined uncertainty relation that incorporates skew information, unifies previous results, and applies to both pure and mixed Gaussian states.

Findings

Refined uncertainty relation saturated by all Gaussian states.

Provides an alternative measure for non-Gaussianity.

Unifies and generalizes previous uncertainty bounds.

Abstract

We report a refinement of Robertson-Schroedinger uncertainty relation via Wigner-Yanase skew information. Besides the well known quantum uncertainty arising from the noncommutativity of observables, there is classical uncertainty arising from the mixedness of the states that is quantified by the difference between the variance and the skew information. Our refined uncertainty relation for canonical observables is saturated by all the Gaussian states, pure or mixed, and thus provides an alternative measure for the non-Gaussianity of quantum states. Generalizations to the case of metric adjusted skew information are presented, unifying and refining most of previous results.