Nov 16 – 27, 2026
IGAP
Europe/Rome timezone

Entropic Uncertainty from Certainty

Nov 23, 2026, 4:25 PM
25m
Room D (IGAP)

Room D

IGAP

Via Beirut, 2 – Miramare Campus – Trieste

Speaker

Oliver Waite (University of California, Riverside)

Description

In this talk I discuss the problem posed by Magan of deriving sharp entropic uncertainty relations from the entropic certainty principle. I introduce a quadratic form measuring the failure of observables to commute with the momentum subalgebra. This gives rise to a flow whose trajectories are operator-valued paths. I show that relative entropy along the induced flow of states converges to the relative entropy of their restrictions to the fixed-point algebra of the flow. An explicit entropy-production formula then expresses the resulting loss of relative entropy as an improper integral. I discuss an AI-assisted analytic computation proving Gaussian vector states saturate the expected lower bound in the continuum limit. I conclude by outlining an argument, still under verification, that would establish this lower bound for all normalized Schwartz wavefunctions and thereby yield the sharp entropic uncertainty inequality of Beckner–Białynicki-Birula–Mycielski.

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