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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

In the context of constrained quantum mechanics, reference systems are used to construct relational observables that are invariant under the action of the symmetry group. Upon measurement of a relational observable, the reference system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Girelli , David Poulin

Recent work on quantum reference frames (QRFs) has demonstrated that superposition and entanglement are properties that change under QRF transformations. Given their utility in quantum information processing, it is important to understand…

The aim of this paper is to provide a largely self-contained, compact and comprehensible introduction to the basic ideas behind correlation geometry, which underlies the theory of causal fermion system (CFS). A key focus here is on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Claudio F. Paganini

We investigate the physics of quantum reference frames. Specifically, we study several simple scenarios involving a small number of quantum particles, whereby we promote one of these particles to the role of a quantum observer and ask what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Renato M. Angelo , Nicolas Brunner , Sandu Popescu , Anthony J. Short , Paul Skrzypczyk

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

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

In a gauge theory, a collection of kinematical degrees of freedom is used to redundantly describe a smaller amount of gauge-invariant information. In a quantum error correcting code (QECC), a collection of computational degrees of freedom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Sylvain Carrozza , Aidan Chatwin-Davies , Philipp A. Hoehn , Fabio M. Mele

The aim of these notes is to elucidate some aspects of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, especially those relating to the notion of particles. A selection of issues relevant to wave-particle duality is given. The case of a generic…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-13 Vladimir Mashkevich

We present a theory of "quantum references", similar to lenses in classical functional programming, that allow to point to a subsystem of a larger quantum system, and to mutate/measure that part. Mutable classical variables, quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Dominique Unruh

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) developed in Rindler space-time and its thermal properties are analyzed by means of quantum groups approach. The quantum deformation parameter, labelling the unitarily inequivalent representations, turns out to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaetano Lambiase

This thesis is a compilation of research in relativistic quantum information theory, and research in quantum reference frames. The research in the former category provides a fundamental construction of quantum information theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 Matthew C Palmer

It has been shown that defining gravitational entanglement entropies relative to quantum reference frames (QRFs) intrinsically regularizes them. Here, we demonstrate that such relational definitions also have an advantage in lattice gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Goncalo Araujo-Regado , Philipp A. Hoehn , Francesco Sartini

Generalized symmetries (also known as categorical symmetries) is a newly developing technique for studying quantum field theories. It has given us new insights into the structure of QFT and many new powerful tools that can be applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 T. Daniel Brennan , Sungwoo Hong

{\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

Given the importance of quantum reference frames (QRFs) to both quantum and gravitational physics, it is pertinent to develop a systematic method for switching between the descriptions of physics relative to different choices of QRFs, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Augustin Vanrietvelde , Philipp A. Hoehn , Flaminia Giacomini

Treating reference frames fundamentally as quantum systems is inevitable in quantum gravity and also in quantum foundations once considering laboratories as physical systems. Both fields thereby face the question of how to describe physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Augustin Vanrietvelde , Philipp A Hoehn , Flaminia Giacomini , Esteban Castro-Ruiz

We discuss the necessity and the emergence of quantum reference frames when attempting to define a rest frame for mixed particles. We analyze the corresponding concept of frame dependent entanglement and how it could affect measurements on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-21 Antonio Capolupo , Aniello Quaranta

This paper presents a research program aimed at establishing relational foundations for relativistic quantum physics. Although the formalism is still under development, we believe it has matured enough to be shared with the broader…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jan Głowacki

In this paper fields of quantum reference frames based on gauge transformations of rational string states are described in a way that, hopefully, makes them more understandable than their description in an earlier paper. The approach taken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Paul Benioff