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Test of completeness of quantum root-mean-square errors

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According to the uncertainty principle, which is a corner stone of quantum mechanics, it is impossible to measure both position and momentum of an elementary particle (e.g. electron as in Heisenberg’s original argument) with arbitrary accuracy or in other word with zero error. One of the major problems in quantum physics has been to generalize the classical root-mean-square error to quantum measurements to obtain an error measure satisfying both soundness (to vanish for any accurate measurements) and completeness (to vanish only for accurate measurements). S. Sponar et al, npj Quantum Inf. 7, 106 (2021), öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster (28 June 2021)