2013/09/08 by Seiji Kosugi, Kosugi, Seiji
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.1966
6 pages, No figure
arxiv created 2013/09/08 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/08 · arxiv updated 2013/09/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Our investigation of the results of the neutron spin experiment by Ehhart et al. demonstrates that their results cannot be understood in accordance with common sense. For example, their results obtained with different measurement errors are equal to each other for a same neutron state. This is because their measurement values have a large systematic error due to adopting an incorrect measurement-value operator, which is the operator that gives the measurement values of the measured observable. They asserted that their results confirmed the validity of a universally valid uncertainty relation proposed by Ozawa. Therefore, their results demonstrate unexpectedly that Ozawa's uncertainty relation holds true for incorrect measurements. In addition, we have proved this fact theoretically. The measurement-value operator must be defined in order that the systematic error of measurement values predicted by the operator is zero. Such a measurement is called an accurate measurement. Two kind of uncertainty relations are derived for accurate measurements of a pre-measurement observable x0. In addition, we have presented an uncertainty relation for accurate measurements of a post-measurement observable xt. Heisenberg's original uncertainty relation for measurement processes should be interpreted as this relation between the resolution, that is, the measurement error of the post-measurement observable xt and the disturbance of an object observable y0.