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We review the recent investigations on the improved formulation of uncertainty relations which employ the information-theoretic entropy rather than variance as a measure of uncertainty. We show that this formulation also brings out clearly the relation between the overall uncertainty and the quantum mechanical interference due to measurements.
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Lecture delivered at the International Symposium on Theoretical Physics, Bangalore, November 1984.
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Srinivas, M.D. Entropic formulation of uncertainty relations. Pramana - J Phys 25, 369–375 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846763
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