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Quantum Uncertainty Dynamics
Quantum uncertainty relations have deep-rooted significance on the formalism
of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations attracted a renewed
interest for its applications in quantum information science. Robertson derived
a general form of Heisenberg's uncertainty relations for a pair of arbitrary
observables represented by Hermitian operators. In the present work, we
discover a temporal version of the Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relations
for the measurement of two observables at two different times, where the
dynamical uncertainties crucially depend on the time evolution of the
observables. The uncertainties not only depend on the choice of observables,
but they also depend on the times at which the physical observables are
measured. The time correlated two-time commutator dictates the trade-off
between the dynamical uncertainties. We demonstrate the dynamics of these
uncertainty relations for a spin-1/2 system and for a quantum harmonic
oscillator. The temporal uncertainty relations discovered in this work can be
experimentally verified with the present quantum technology.Comment: 5 page