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For those that aren't aware, the uncertainty principle goes pretty deep. You can actually define the uncertainty principle as an inequality involving the integr
by openasocket 2mo ago
For those that aren't aware, the uncertainty principle goes pretty deep. You can actually define the uncertainty principle as an inequality involving the integral of a function vs the function's Fourier transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Harmonic_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Harmonic... . And in a quantum system you can construct the momentum of a particle as the Fourier transform of the position (up to a constant) and the uncertainty principle falls out because of this. This article doesn't state that super explicitly. So the real interesting thing being done here is getting a Fourier transform that works on fractal spaces.
- meindnoch 2mo agoAnother phenomena that boils down to this is the diffraction limit in optics. I.e. the far-field diffraction pattern produced by a point source (c.f. point spread function) is the spatial Fourier transform of the aperture shape. Thus the aperture and the point-spread function satisfy a similar relation to the momentum-position uncertainty principle.