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Not a physicist, but don't you mean maximum? Gaussian distribution is entropy maximum with finite mean and variance
by hervature 7y ago
Not a physicist, but don't you mean maximum? Gaussian distribution is entropy maximum with finite mean and variance
- evanb 7y agoI am a physicist, and minimum is correct. Quantum uncertainty is not an entropy measure. Importantly, the 'minimum uncertainty' is not just about the width of the wavefunction in position space---the uncertainty principle (roughly speaking) says that the variance in position space times the variance in momentum space has a lower bound. A gaussian saturates that bound.