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Effect of Wigner rotation on estimating unitary-shift parameter of relativistic spin-1/2 particle

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10395v2
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 20:25:25 GMT
Title: Effect of Wigner rotation on estimating unitary-shift parameter of relativistic spin-1/2 particle
Authors: Shin Funada and Jun Suzuki
Abstract summary: We use a specific model of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle described by a gaussian wave function with a spin down in the rest frame. It is shown that estimation accuracy decreases monotonically in the velocity of the observer when the moving observer does not measure the spin degree of freedom.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: We obtain the accuracy limit for estimating the expectation value of the position of a relativistic particle for an observer moving along one direction at a constant velocity. We use a specific model of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle described by a gaussian wave function with a spin down in the rest frame. To derive the state vector of the particle for the moving observer, we use the Wigner rotation that entangles the spin and the momentum of the particle. Based on this wave function for the moving frame, we obtain the symmetric logarithmic derivative (SLD) Cramer-Rao bound that sets the estimation accuracy limit for an arbitrary moving observer. It is shown that estimation accuracy decreases monotonically in the velocity of the observer when the moving observer does not measure the spin degree of freedom. This implies that the estimation accuracy limit worsens with increasing the observer's velocity, but it is finite even in the relativistic limit. We derive the amount of this information loss by the exact calculation of the SLD Fisher information matrix in an arbitrary moving frame.

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