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In consistent history quantum theory, a description of the time development of a quantum system requires choosing a framework or consistent family, and then calculating probabilities for the different histories which it contains. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert B. Griffiths

We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The time observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmetry of massless quantum fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The current theories of quantum physics and general relativity on their own do not allow us to study situations in which the gravitational source is quantum. Here, we propose a strategy to determine the dynamics of objects in the presence…

The classical procedures which define the relativistic notion of space-time can be implemented in the framework of Quantum Field Theory. Only relying on the conformal symmetries of field propagation, time-frequency transfer and localization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

The composite particle duality extends the notions of both flux attachment and statistical transmutation in spacetime dimensions beyond 2+1D. It constitutes an exact correspondence that can be understood either as a theoretical framework or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-29 Gerard Valentí-Rojas , Joel Priestley , Patrik Öhberg

We argue that correct account of the quantum properties of macroscopic objects which form reference frames (RF) demand the change of the standard space-time picture accepted in Quantum Mechanics. The presence of RF free quantum motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Mayburov

Geometric (Schrodinger) quantization of nonrelativistic mechanics with respect to different reference frames is considered. In classical nonrelativistic mechanics, a reference frame is represented by a connection on a configuration space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

Based on a number of experimentally verified physical observations, it is argued that the standard principles of quantum mechanics should be applied to the Universe as a whole. Thus, a paradigm is proposed in which the entire Universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Eakins

We develop an operational framework, combining relativistic quantum measurement theory with quantum reference frames (QRFs), in which local measurements of a quantum field on a background with symmetries are performed relative to a QRF.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Daan W. Janssen , Leon Deryck Loveridge , Kasia Rejzner , James Waldron

In general relativity, the description of spacetime relies on idealised rods and clocks, which identify a reference frame. In any concrete scenario, reference frames are associated to physical systems, which are ultimately quantum in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Flaminia Giacomini

The frame of classical probability theory can be generalized by enlarging the usual family of random variables in order to encompass nondeterministic ones: this leads to a frame in which two kinds of correlations emerge: the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Beltrametti , S. Bugajski

The review paper presents generalization of d'Alembert's variational principle: the dynamics of a quantum system for an external observer is defined by the exact equilibrium of all acting in the system forces, including the random quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Manjavidze

Symmetries are a central concept in our understanding of physics. In quantum theories, a quantum reference frame (QRF) can be used to distinguish between observables related by a symmetry. The framework of operational QRFs provides a means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Daan W. Janssen

A fundamental question in the field of quantum reference frames concerns what global properties of a system can be determined by observers operating entirely from within that system. We investigate this question by extending both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Anne-Catherine de la Hamette , Viktoria Kabel , Časlav Brukner

A modification of the covariant theory is proposed in which the self-energy of the system, corresponding to time-like degrees of freedom in the configuration space, preserves the classical law of change in quantum theory. As a result,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-27 Natalia Gorobey , Alexander Lukyanenko

The concept of inertial frame of reference in classical physics and special theory of relativity is analysed. It has been shown that this fundamental concept of physics is not clear enough. A definition of inertial frame of reference is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Boris Čulina

Quantum Mechanics is revisited as the appropriate theoretical framework for the description of the outcome of experiments that rely on the use of classical devices. In particular, it is emphasized that the limitations on the measurability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

On classical phase spaces admitting just one complex-differentiable structure, there is no indeterminacy in the choice of the creation operators that create quanta out of a given vacuum. In these cases the notion of a quantum is universal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Isidro

It often goes unnoticed that, even for a finite number of degrees of freedom, the canonical commutation relations have many inequivalent irreducible unitary representations; the free particle and a particle in a box provide examples that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 R. N. Sen