Because is the adjoint of ,
Expanding gives the real quadratic
Its discriminant must be nonpositive. Since the expectation of a commutator of Hermitian operators is purely imaginary,
Taking and and then taking square roots gives the stated uncertainty relation. This is the quadratic-norm proof of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation.
Positivity of the squared norm of the supplied state gives, for every real ,
where the stated zero means were used in the last line. This quadratic in is nonnegative for every real , so its discriminant is nonpositive:
This is the quadratic-norm proof of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, and proves