0 Uncertainty rescued : Bohr ’ s complementarity for composite systems
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Generalized uncertainty relations may depend not only on the commutator relation of two observables considered, but also on mutual correlations, in particular, on entanglement. The equivalence between the uncertainty relation and Bohr’s complementarity thus holds in a much broader sense than anticipated.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000