title: Equivalence of wave-particle duality to entropic uncertainty.
abstract: Interferometers capture a basic mystery of quantum mechanics: a single particle can exhibit wave behaviour, yet that wave behaviour disappears when one tries to determine the particle's path inside the interferometer. This idea has been formulated quantitatively as an inequality, for example, by Englert and Jaeger, Shimony and Vaidman, which upper bounds the sum of the interference visibility and the path distinguishability. Such wave-particle duality relations (WPDRs) are often thought to be conceptually inequivalent to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, although this has been debated. Here we show that WPDRs correspond precisely to a modern formulation of the uncertainty principle in terms of entropies, namely, the min- and max-entropies. This observation unifies two fundamental concepts in quantum mechanics. Furthermore, it leads to a robust framework for deriving novel WPDRs by applying entropic uncertainty relations to interferometric models. As an illustration, we derive a novel relation that captures the coherence in a quantum beam splitter.
authors.affiliation: 1] Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore [2] Institute for Quantum Computing, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Coles
authors.affiliation: 1] Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore [2] QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jedrzej
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaniewski
authors.affiliation: 1] Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore [2] QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wehner