Identification is Pointless: Quantum Coordinates, Localisation of Events, and the Quantum Hole Argument
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| author | Kabel, Viktoria de la Hamette, Anne-Catherine Apadula, Luca Cepollaro, Carlo Gomes, Henrique Butterfield, Jeremy Brukner, Časlav |
| author_facet | Kabel, Viktoria de la Hamette, Anne-Catherine Apadula, Luca Cepollaro, Carlo Gomes, Henrique Butterfield, Jeremy Brukner, Časlav |
| contents | The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference frames, QRFs can be used to define physical quantities relationally. Unlike their classical analogue, they relativise the notions of superposition and entanglement. Here, we explain this feature by examining how configurations or locations are identified across different branches in superposition. We show that, in the presence of symmetries, whether a system is in "the same" or "different" configurations across the branches depends on the choice of QRF. Hence, sameness and difference -- and thus superposition and entanglement -- lose their absolute meaning. We apply these ideas to the context of semi-classical spacetimes in superposition and use coincidences of four scalar fields to construct a comparison map between spacetime points in the different branches. This reveals that the localisation of an event is frame-dependent. We discuss the implications for indefinite causal order and the locality of interaction and conclude with a generalisation of Einstein's hole argument to the quantum context. |
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| spellingShingle | Identification is Pointless: Quantum Coordinates, Localisation of Events, and the Quantum Hole Argument Kabel, Viktoria de la Hamette, Anne-Catherine Apadula, Luca Cepollaro, Carlo Gomes, Henrique Butterfield, Jeremy Brukner, Časlav Quantum Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology History and Philosophy of Physics The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference frames, QRFs can be used to define physical quantities relationally. Unlike their classical analogue, they relativise the notions of superposition and entanglement. Here, we explain this feature by examining how configurations or locations are identified across different branches in superposition. We show that, in the presence of symmetries, whether a system is in "the same" or "different" configurations across the branches depends on the choice of QRF. Hence, sameness and difference -- and thus superposition and entanglement -- lose their absolute meaning. We apply these ideas to the context of semi-classical spacetimes in superposition and use coincidences of four scalar fields to construct a comparison map between spacetime points in the different branches. This reveals that the localisation of an event is frame-dependent. We discuss the implications for indefinite causal order and the locality of interaction and conclude with a generalisation of Einstein's hole argument to the quantum context. |
| title | Identification is Pointless: Quantum Coordinates, Localisation of Events, and the Quantum Hole Argument |
| topic | Quantum Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology History and Philosophy of Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10267 |