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This paper initiates a systematic study of operators arising as integrals of operator-valued functions with respect to positive operator-valued measures and utilizes these tools to provide relativization maps (Yen) for quantum reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Jan Głowacki

If quantum gravity respects the principles of quantum mechanics, suitably generalized, it may be that a more viable approach to the theory is through identifying the relevant quantum structures rather than by quantizing classical spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Steven B. Giddings

Quantum reference frames have attracted renewed interest recently, as their exploration is relevant and instructive in many areas of quantum theory. Among the different types, position and time reference frames have captivated special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Michael Suleymanov , Ismael L. Paiva , Eliahu Cohen

We propose that observables in quantum theory are properly understood as representatives of symmetry-invariant quantities relating one system to another, the latter to be called a reference system. We provide a rigorous mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Leon Loveridge , Takayuki Miyadera , Paul Busch

In quantum gravity, it has been argued that a proper accounting of the role played by an observer promotes the von Neumann algebra of observables in a given spacetime subregion from Type III to Type II. While this allows for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Julian De Vuyst , Stefan Eccles , Philipp A. Hoehn , Josh Kirklin

Locality is a central notion in modern physics, but different disciplines understand it in different ways. Quantum field theory focuses on relativistic locality, based on spacetime regions, while quantum information theory focuses circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Andrea Di Biagio , Richard Howl , Časlav Brukner , Carlo Rovelli , Marios Christodoulou

This paper elaborates on an intrinsically quantum approach to gravity, which begins with a general framework for quantum mechanics and then seeks to identify additional mathematical structure on Hilbert space that is responsible for gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Steven B. Giddings

The quantum reference frames program is based on the idea that reference frames should be treated as quantum physical systems. In this work, we combine these insights with the emphasis on operationality, understood as refraining from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jan Głowacki

Since their first introduction, Quantum Reference Frame (QRF) transformations have been extensively discussed, generalising the covariance of physical laws to the quantum domain. Despite important progress, a formulation of QRF…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Luca Apadula , Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Časlav Brukner

Quantum field theory (QFT) based on the principles of special relativity (SR) and it is in fact the \emph{kinematic theory of fields}. The root assumption is that there is "relativistic description" of \emph{any} isolated quantum system in…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Peter Leifer

A quantum frame is defined by a material object subject to the laws of quantum mechanics. The present paper studies the relations between quantum frames, which in the classical case are described by elements of the Poincare' group. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 M. Toller

We consider the process of changing reference frames in the case where the reference frames are quantum systems. We find that, as part of this process, decoherence is necessarily induced on any quantum system described relative to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Matthew C. Palmer , Florian Girelli , Stephen D. Bartlett

We define the perspective of any quantum reference frame (QRF) and construct reversible transformations between different perspectives. This extends the framework of [arXiv:2110.13199] to non-ideal QRFs with finite resources such as energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sébastien Christophe Garmier , Ladina Hausmann , Esteban Castro-Ruiz

Quantum General Relativity (QGR), sometimes called Loop Quantum Gravity, has matured over the past fifteen years to a mathematically rigorous candidate quantum field theory of the gravitational field. The features that distinguish it from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Thomas Thiemann

{\em Quantum Fourier analysis} is a new subject that combines an algebraic Fourier transform (pictorial in the case of subfactor theory) with analytic estimates. This provides interesting tools to investigate phenomena such as quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Arthur Jaffe , Chunlan Jiang , Zhengwei Liu , Yunxiang Ren , Jinsong Wu

We consider symmetry as a foundational concept in quantum mechanics and rewrite quantum mechanics and measurement axioms in this description. We argue that issues related to measurements and physical reality of states can be better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Houri Ziaeepour

We study a quantum theory based on two assumptions: In the intrinsic frame of reference of an isolated, macroscopic system, (i) the system has no global motion and is not entangled with any other system, (ii) time evolution of statevectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Wen-ge Wang

The formalism of nonrelativistic quantum physics was originally considered in the context of inertial frames. Here, we report on a more general framework that includes noninertial frames and arbitrarily strong gravitational fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Riccardo Falcone

Quantum mechanics introduces the concept of probability at the fundamental level, yielding the measurement problem. On the other hand, recent progress in cosmology has led to the "multiverse" picture, in which our observed universe is only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 Yasunori Nomura

We find a necessary condition for subsystems to become entangled after a quantum reference frame transformation. By distinguishing between quantum systems suitable to act as reference frames and physical systems described relative to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 T. Rick Perche , Natália Salomé Móller , Guilherme Franzmann