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most citedQuantum mechanics and the covariance of physical laws in quantum reference frames

289 citations · 1.5k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

quant-ph2026

Mutual Information Across Quantum Reference Frame Perspectives

Leonardo Valente, Carla Ferradini, Flaminia Giacomini +1

In quantum information theory, standard notions typically presuppose a fixed partition of the world into subsystems, encoded in a tensor product structure of the Hilbert space. Yet…

quant-ph2026

Reduced Quantum-Reference-Frame Channels for Open Quantum Systems

Paolo Luppi, Viktoria Kabel, Flaminia Giacomini +1

When reference frames are treated quantum mechanically, the subsystem structure of quantum systems is no longer absolute, but depends on the choice of the quantum reference frame (…

gr-qc2026

Quantum Reference Fields Transformations in Linearized Quantum Gravity

Lin-Qing Chen, Flaminia Giacomini

Diffeomorphism invariance is a central feature of general relativity. Without external reference structures, matter and geometry must be specified relationally, with respect to int…

quant-ph2025

Local Operations and Field Mediated Entanglement without a Local Tensor Product Structure

Alberto Spalvieri, Sébastien Christophe Garmier, Flaminia Giacomini

Quantum information has become a powerful tool for probing the structure of quantum field theories, yet its application to gauge theories remains subtle. On the one hand, quantum i…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Galilei group as quantum reference frame transformations

Angel Ballesteros, Diego Fernandez-Silvestre, Flaminia Giacomini +1

Quantum groups have been widely explored as a tool to encode possible nontrivial generalisations of reference frame transformations, relevant in quantum gravity. In quantum informa…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

Quantum Gravity, Hydrodynamics and Emergent Cosmology: A Collection of Perspectives

Jibril Ben Achour, Dario Benedetti, Martin Bojowald +17

This collection of perspective pieces captures recent advancements and reflections from a dynamic research community dedicated to bridging quantum gravity, hydrodynamics, and emerg…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum effects in gravity beyond the Newton potential from a delocalised quantum source

Lin-Qing Chen, Flaminia Giacomini

Recent progress in table-top experiments offers the opportunity to show for the first time that gravity is not compatible with a classical description. In all current experimental…

quant-ph2023

Relational superposition measurements with a material quantum ruler

Hui Wang, Flaminia Giacomini, Franco Nori +1

In physics, it is crucial to identify operational measurement procedures to give physical meaning to abstract quantities. There has been significant effort to define time operation…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Any consistent coupling between classical gravity and quantum matter is fundamentally irreversible

Thomas D. Galley, Flaminia Giacomini, John H. Selby

When gravity is sourced by a quantum system, there is tension between its role as the mediator of a fundamental interaction, which is expected to acquire nonclassical features, and…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Inference of gravitational field superposition from quantum measurements

Chris Overstreet, Joseph Curti, Minjeong Kim +3

Experiments are beginning to probe the interaction of quantum particles with gravitational fields beyond the uniform-field regime. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the gravit…

gr-qc2022

Quantum States of Fields for Quantum Split Sources

Lin-Qing Chen, Flaminia Giacomini, Carlo Rovelli

Field mediated entanglement experiments probe the quantum superposition of macroscopically distinct field configurations. We show that this phenomenon can be described by using a t…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Gravitational time dilation as a resource in quantum sensing

Carlo Cepollaro, Flaminia Giacomini, Matteo G. A. Paris

Atomic clock interferometers are a valuable tool to test the interface between quantum theory and gravity, in particular via the measurement of gravitational time dilation in the q…

quant-ph2022★ 26 cited

Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations

Flaminia Giacomini, Achim Kempf

We generalize the Unruh-DeWitt detector model to second quantization. We illustrate this model by applying it to an excited particle in a superposition of relativistic velocities.…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Quantum generalisation of Einstein's Equivalence Principle can be verified with entangled clocks as quantum reference frames

Carlo Cepollaro, Flaminia Giacomini

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) is of crucial importance to test the foundations of general relativity. When the particles involved in the test exhibit quantum properties,…

quant-ph2021★ 81 cited

Quantum superposition of spacetimes obeys Einstein's Equivalence Principle

Flaminia Giacomini, Časlav Brukner

We challenge the view that there is a basic conflict between the fundamental principles of Quantum Theory and General Relativity, and in particular the fact that a superposition of…

quant-ph2021★ 66 cited

Spacetime Quantum Reference Frames and superpositions of proper times

Flaminia Giacomini

In general relativity, the description of spacetime relies on idealised rods and clocks, which identify a reference frame. In any concrete scenario, reference frames are associated…

quant-ph2020★ 37 cited

The group structure of dynamical transformations between quantum reference frames

Angel Ballesteros, Flaminia Giacomini, Giulia Gubitosi

Recently, it was shown that when reference frames are associated to quantum systems, the transformation laws between such quantum reference frames need to be modified to take into…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Einstein's Equivalence principle for superpositions of gravitational fields and quantum reference frames

Flaminia Giacomini, Časlav Brukner

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP), stating that all laws of physics take their special-relativistic form in any local inertial (classical) reference frame, lies at the core…

quant-ph2020★ 60 cited

A no-go theorem on the nature of the gravitational field beyond quantum theory

Thomas D. Galley, Flaminia Giacomini, John H. Selby

Recently, table-top experiments involving massive quantum systems have been proposed to test the interface of quantum theory and gravity. In particular, the crucial point of the de…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Comment on "Revisiting dynamics of quantum causal structures --when can causal order evolve?''

Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Flaminia Giacomini, Časlav Brukner

In the last few years, there has been increasing interest in quantum processes with indefinite causal order. Process matrices are a convenient framework to study such processes. Re…

quant-ph2020★ 35 cited

Relativistic Bell Test within Quantum Reference Frames

Lucas F. Streiter, Flaminia Giacomini, Časlav Brukner

A still widely debated question in the field of relativistic quantum information is whether entanglement and the degree of violation of Bell's inequalities for massive relativistic…

quant-ph2019★ 41 cited

Generalized probability rules from a timeless formulation of Wigner's friend scenarios

Veronika Baumann, Flavio Del Santo, Alexander R. H. Smith +3

The quantum measurement problem can be regarded as the tension between the two alternative dynamics prescribed by quantum mechanics: the unitary evolution of the wave function and…

quant-ph2019★ 116 cited

Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events in the presence of gravitating quantum systems

Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Flaminia Giacomini, Alessio Belenchia +1

The standard formulation of quantum theory relies on a fixed space-time metric determining the localisation and causal order of events. In general relativity, the metric is influen…

quant-ph2019★ 49 cited

Information Content of the Gravitational Field of a Quantum Superposition

Alessio Belenchia, Robert M. Wald, Flaminia Giacomini +3

When a massive quantum body is put into a spatial superposition, it is of interest to consider the quantum aspects of the gravitational field sourced by the body. We argue that in…