A revisiting of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in the light of modern quantum information theory yields a formulation that takes into account the reduction in uncertainty from the point of view of a quantum observer.
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Winter, A. Coping with uncertainty. Nature Phys 6, 640–641 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1771
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