On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14131v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:58:04 GMT
• Title: On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames
• Authors: Philipp A. Hoehn, Julian De Vuyst, Artur Tsobanjan,
• Abstract summary: Internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) are a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory.<n>Here, we investigate the relation between three approaches to QRFs for gauge symmetries.<n>We show that these three approaches are, in fact, equivalent for ideal QRFs.
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• Abstract: The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity, gauge theories and foundational physics. Multiple approaches have emerged, sometimes differing in scope and the way symmetries are implemented, raising the question as to their relation. Here, we investigate the relation between three approaches to QRFs for gauge symmetries, namely the effective semiclassical, algebraic, and perspective-neutral (PN) approaches. Rather than constructing Hilbert spaces, as the PN approach, the effective approach is based on a quantum phase space parametrized by expectation values and fluctuations, while the emphasis of the algebraic approach is on the state space of complex linear functionals on a kinematical algebra. Nevertheless, external frame information is treated as gauge in all three formalisms, manifested in constraints on states and algebra. We show that these three approaches are, in fact, equivalent for ideal QRFs, distinguished by sharp orientations, which is the previous setting of the first two approaches. Our demonstration pertains to single constraints, including relativistic ones, and encompasses QRF changes. In particular, the QRF transformations of the PN framework agree semiclassically with those of the older effective approach, by which it was inspired. As a physical application, we explore the QRF covariance of uncertainties and fluctuations, which turn out to be frame-dependent. This is particularly well-suited for the effective and algebraic approaches, for which these quantities form a natural basis. Finally, we pave the way towards extending these two approaches to non-ideal QRFs by studying the projection and gauge-fixing operations of the Page-Wootters formalism, built into the PN framework, on algebraic states.

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