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- From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
- Newsgroups: bionet.info-theory
- Subject: Further trouble at the OK corral
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.191422.9266@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:14:22 GMT
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- "
- Noise from Quantum Mechanics
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- ven at T=0, in the absence of thermal noise, most coordinates remain
- random variables. This noise arises from quantum mechanics and can be
- qualitatively understood in terms of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle,
- which constrains the reliability of simultaneous measurements of
- complementary variables, such as position and momentum.........The
- 'quantum noise' that enforces the uncertainty principle provides an
- independent limit to the reliability of measurements."
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- Annual Review of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry 16:455-78 1987
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- I interpret this to mean that I can not be certain that H(x)=0 at
- Absolute Zero due to the Uncertainty Principle.
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- Steve
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