English

Time-reversal frameness and superselection

Quantum Physics 2009-10-20 v2

Abstract

We show that appropriate superpositions of motional states are a reference frame resource that enables breaking of time -reversal superselection so that two parties lacking knowledge about the other's direction of time can still communicate. We identify the time-reversal reference frame resource states and determine the corresponding frameness monotone, which connects time-reversal frameness to entanglement. In contradistinction to other studies of reference frame quantum resources, this is the first analysis that involves an antiunitary rather than unitary representation.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0811.3980,
  title  = {Time-reversal frameness and superselection},
  author = {Gilad Gour and Barry C. Sanders and Peter S. Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3980},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pp

R2 v1 2026-06-21T11:44:54.215Z