A quantum uncertainty relation based on Fisher's information

Abstract

We explore quantum uncertainty relations involving the Fisher information functionals I x and I p evaluated, respectively, on a wavefunction (x) defined on a D-dimensional configuration space and the concomitant wavefunction (p) on the conjugate momentum space. We prove that the associated Fisher functionals obey the uncertainty relation I x I p 4D 2 when either (x) or (p) is real. On the other hand, there is no lower bound to the above product for arbitrary complex wavefunctions. We give explicit examples of complex wavefunctions not obeying the above bound. In particular, we provide a parametrized wavefunction for which the product I x I p can be made arbitrarily small.