The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation

Yakov Bloch, Eliahu Cohen

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Abstract

The Cramér–Rao bound, satisfied by classical Fisher information, a key quantity in information theory, has been shown in different contexts to give rise to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we show that the identification of the mean quantum potential, an important notion in Bohmian mechanics, with the Fisher information, leads, through the Cramér–Rao bound, to an uncertainty principle which is stronger, in general, than both Heisenberg and Robertson–Schrödinger uncertainty relations, allowing to experimentally test the validity of such an identification.

Original languageEnglish
Article number117
JournalFoundations of Physics
Volume52
Issue number6
StatePublished - Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Fisher information
  • Madelung
  • Quantum potential
  • Quantum uncertainty
  • de Broglie-Bohm theory

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Philosophy
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • History and Philosophy of Science

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