1112.5198 (Łukasz Rudnicki)

Heisenberg position-momentum uncertainty relation beyond central
potentials    [PDF]

Łukasz Rudnicki

Recently it was shown in [New J. Phys. 8, 330 (2006)] that the three
dimensional Heisenberg uncertainty principle might be signifficantly sharpened
if the relevant quantum state describes the particle in a central potential. I
extend that result to the case of states which are not the eigenstates of the
square of the angular momentum operator. I derive a new lower bound which
involves the mean value and the variance of the $\hat{L}^2$ operator.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5198