Complementarity and the uncertainty relations

@article{Bjork1999ComplementarityAT,  title={Complementarity and the uncertainty relations},  author={Gunnar G. Bjork and Jonas Soderholm and Alexei S. Trifonov and Tedros Tsegaye and Anders Karlsson},  journal={Physical Review A},  year={1999},  volume={60},  pages={1874-1882},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27371899}}
We formulate a general complementarity relation starting from any Hermitian operator with discrete nondegenerate eigenvalues. We then elucidate the relationship between quantum complementarity and the Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation. We show that they are intimately connected. Finally we exemplify the general theory with some specific suggested experiments. 

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