Department of Physics,

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

Renigunta Road, Tirupati - 517506
Andhra Pradesh, India.

Physics Seminar

Venue: Class room-11

Date: 11 February 2019
Time: 4 PM

Allowed region of the mean values of angular momentum observables

and their uncertainty relations

Dr. Arun Sehrawat

Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India.

The expectation values of operators drawn from a single quantum state cannot be outside of a particular region,
called their allowed region or the joint numerical range of the operators. Basically, the allowed region is an
image of the state space under the Born rule. The maximum-eigenvalue-states—of every linear combination
of the operators of interest—are sufficient to generate boundary of the allowed region. In this way, we obtain
the numerical range of certain Hermitian operators (observables) that are functions of the angular momentum
operators. Especially, we consider here three kinds of functions—combinations of powers of the ladder operators,
powers of the angular momentum operators and their anticommutators—and discover the allowed regions of
different shapes. By defining some specific concave (and convex) functions on the joint numerical range, we
also achieve tight uncertainty (and certainty) relations for the observables. Overall, we demonstrate how the
numerical range and uncertainty relations change as the angular momentum quantum number grows. Finally, we
apply the quantum de Finetti theorem by taking a multi-qubit system and attain the allowed regions and tight
uncertainty relations in the limit where the quantum number goes to infinity.