Quantum Frame Relativity of Subsystems, Correlations and Thermodynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09131v2
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:00:03 GMT
• Title: Quantum Frame Relativity of Subsystems, Correlations and Thermodynamics
• Authors: Philipp A. Hoehn, Isha Kotecha, Fabio M. Mele
• Abstract summary: Internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) partition a system in different ways into subsystems. We show that subsystem relativity, in fact, also arises in special relativity with internal frames. We focus on investigating when and how subsystem correlations and entropies, interactions and types of dynamics change under QRF transformations.
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• Abstract: It was recently noted that different internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) partition a system in different ways into subsystems, much like different inertial observers in special relativity decompose spacetime in different ways into space and time. Here we expand on this QRF relativity of subsystems and elucidate that it is the source of all novel QRF dependent effects, just like the relativity of simultaneity is the origin of all characteristic special relativistic phenomena. We show that subsystem relativity, in fact, also arises in special relativity with internal frames and, by implying the relativity of simultaneity, constitutes a generalisation of it. Physical consequences of the QRF relativity of subsystems, which we explore here systematically, and the relativity of simultaneity may thus be seen in similar light. We focus on investigating when and how subsystem correlations and entropies, interactions and types of dynamics (open vs. closed), as well as quantum thermodynamical processes change under QRF transformations. We show that thermal equilibrium is generically QRF relative and find that, remarkably, QRF transformations not only can change a subsystem temperature, but even map positive into negative temperature states. We further examine how non-equilibrium notions of heat and work exchange, as well as entropy production and flow depend on the QRF. Along the way, we develop the first study of how reduced subsystem states transform under QRF changes. Focusing on physical insights, we restrict to ideal QRFs associated with finite abelian groups. Besides being conducive to rigour, the ensuing finite-dimensional setting is where quantum information-theoretic quantities and quantum thermodynamics are best developed. We anticipate, however, that our results extend qualitatively to more general groups and frames, and even to subsystems in gauge theory and gravity. [abridged]

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