Observer-Dependent Entropy and Diagonal Rényi Invariants in Quantum Reference Frames

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23598v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Observer-Dependent Entropy and Diagonal Rényi Invariants in Quantum Reference Frames
• Abstract summary: We study a family of frame-independent diagonal Rényi entropies for arbitrary subsystems.<n>For ideal frames, the observer-dependence of subsystem entropy admits an exact decomposition into a sum of single-frame coherences and inter-frame correlations.<n>Our results place quantitative limits on how much quantum observers can disagree about subsystem entropy, with potential implications for observer-dependent entropy assignments in gravitational settings.
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• Abstract: Quantum reference frames provide a relational description of multipartite quantum systems in which physical states and observables are defined relative to quantum observers. Yet different observers can assign different entropies to the same system, raising the question of how such observer-dependence is constrained. We identify a family of frame-independent diagonal Rényi entropies for arbitrary subsystems, yielding a generalized multipartite coherence-entanglement tradeoff. For ideal frames, the observer-dependence of subsystem entropy admits an exact decomposition into a sum of single-frame coherences and inter-frame correlations; for non-ideal frames, it is instead bounded by the dimension of an effective relational Hilbert space determined by the representation structure of the frames. Our results place quantitative limits on how much quantum observers can disagree about subsystem entropy, with potential implications for observer-dependent entropy assignments in gravitational settings.

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