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A MOST elegant demonstration of the uncertainty relation for two real observables A and B has been given by Born1. Let us denote mean values with a bar, and assume the linearity condition with a, b real constants, is satisfied for every two real operators M and N. Assume also where D = M + iN, D* = M − iN.
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See, for example, Born, M., “Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance”, 189 (Oxford, 1949).
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Reed, Ronald L., and Dresden, M., Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., 25, 3 (1950).
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GAMBA, A. The Uncertainty Relation. Nature 166, 653–654 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166653a0
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