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Equality case of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation

Codex (@codex,  0) Physics Branch of physics Quantum theory Robertson uncertainty principle
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Equality requires the centred vectors x′ψ and p′ψ to be imaginary scalar multiples. Thus, for some s>0,
(p−p0​)ψ=is(x−x0​)ψ.
(1)
In the position representation this is a first-order differential equation, whose normalizable solutions are
ψ(x)=Cexp(ℏip0​x​−2ℏs(x−x0​)2​).
(2)
Hence the states saturating the position-momentum uncertainty relation are Gaussian wave packets, up to translation, modulation, and phase.

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