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Recently there has been much effort in developing a quantum generalisation of reference frame transformations. Despite important progress, a complete understanding of their principles is still lacking. In particular, we argue that previous…

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There is a multitude of interpretations of quantum mechanics, but foundational principles are lacking. Relational quantum mechanics views the observer as a physical system, which allows for an unambiguous interpretation as all axioms are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Dorian Daimer , Susanne Still

Based on a recent relational formulation of quantum reference frame transformations, especially with a case of quantum spatial translations in particular, we analyzed how the `value' of an observable for a fixed state change. That is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Otto C. W. Kong

This article suggests that thinking about the role of reference frames can provide new insight into Extended Wigner's Friend scenarios. This involves appealing to symmetries to make a principled distinction between properties of a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Emily Adlam

We develop the framework of classical Observational entropy, which is a mathematically rigorous and precise framework for non-equilibrium thermodynamics, explicitly defined in terms of a set of observables. Observational entropy can be seen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Dominik Šafránek , Anthony Aguirre , J. M. Deutsch

The study of conditional $q$-entropies in composite quantum systems has recently been the focus of considerable interest, particularly in connection with the problem of separability. The $q$-entropies depend on the density matrix $\rho$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Batle , A. R. Plastino , M. Casas , A. Plastino

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

This paper is an exploration of the nuanced realm of reference frames within the framework of General Relativity. Our analysis exposes a violation of Earman's SP1 principle in scenarios involving fields that are dynamically uncoupled, a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Nicola Bamonti , Henrique Gomes

Entanglement criteria for an $n$-partite quantum system with continuous variables are formulated in terms of R\'{e}nyi entropies. R\'{e}nyi entropies are widely used as a good information measure due to many nice properties. Derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Alexey E. Rastegin

We consider symmetries and reduction in non-relativistic many-body quantum mechanics, with the aim of identifying physically meaningful observables in systems such as molecules and crystalline solids. To this end, we propose a unified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ville J. Härkönen

The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference…

In theories with a diffeomorphism symmetry, such as general relativity and canonical quantum gravity, it is often proposed that the empirical content is encoded in relational observables. But how do relational observables actually make…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Emily Adlam

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

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

Coherence of a quantum state intrinsically depends on the choice of the reference basis. A natural question to ask is the following: if we use two or more incompatible reference bases, can~there be some trade-off relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati , Manabendra Nath Bera

Quantum uncertainty relations are formulated in terms of relative entropy between distributions of measurement outcomes and suitable reference distributions with maximum entropy. This type of entropic uncertainty relation can be applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Stefan Floerchinger , Tobias Haas , Ben Hoeber

In the past several years, observational entropy has been developed as both a (time-dependent) quantum generalization of Boltzmann entropy, and as a rather general framework to encompass classical and quantum equilibrium and non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Dominik Šafránek , Anthony Aguirre , Joseph Schindler , J. M. Deutsch

After a review of the existing theory of non-inertial frames and mathematical observers in Minkowski space-time we give the explicit expression of a family of such frames obtained from the inertial ones by means of point-dependent Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

Quantum Darwinism describes objectivity of quantum systems via their correlations with their environment--information that hypothetical observers can recover by measuring the environments. However, observations are done with respect to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Thao P. Le , Piotr Mironowicz , Paweł Horodecki

The paper contains a brief review of an approach to quantum entanglement based on analysis of dynamic symmetry of systems and quantum uncertainties, accompanying the measurement of mean value of certain basic observables. The latter are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander A. Klyachko , Alexander S Shumovsky