Introduce the dimensionless width . Multiplying the variances givesThe minimum holds at all times precisely when , the oscillator ground-state width. For any other , it is still attained at the isolated quarter-period times , including zero. At a fixed generic time, minimizing over again selects .
The excess product has a covariance interpretation:Thus the breathing Gaussian state in a harmonic oscillator saturates the Robertson-Schrödinger uncertainty relation throughout, even when its position-momentum product exceeds the lower bound in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.