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20242026
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7 papers

quant-ph2026

Autonomization of Quantum Systems and the Emergence of the Work Operator

Carlo Cepollaro, Danial Chughtai, Alberto Spalvieri +2

Estimation of work at the quantum scale remains a central challenge in quantum thermodynamics. Canonical approaches have a fundamental drawback: they assume classical control of th…

quant-ph2026

The classical limit of quantum mechanics through coarse-grained measurements

Fatemeh Bibak, Carlo Cepollaro, Nicolás Medina Sánchez +2

Understanding how classical physics emerges from quantum mechanics remains a central problem in the foundations of physics. Here we derive a classical limit from finite-resolution…

quant-ph2026

Particle detector in a position-superposed black hole spacetime

Laurens Walleghem, Carlo Cepollaro

We calculate the response of an Unruh--DeWitt detector in a 2+1d spacetime that contains a BTZ black hole in a superposition of locations. Upon performing a Quantum Reference Frame…

quant-ph2026

Aumann's theorem beyond ontology: quantum, postquantum, and indefinite causal order

Carlo Cepollaro, Andrea Di Biagio

Agreement theorems are no-go results about rational disagreement: if two agents start from a common prior and their posterior beliefs are common knowledge, they cannot assign diffe…

quant-ph2025

The sum of entanglement and subsystem coherence is invariant under quantum reference frame transformations

Carlo Cepollaro, Ali Akil, Paweł Cieśliński +2

Recent work on quantum reference frames (QRFs) has demonstrated that superposition and entanglement are properties that change under QRF transformations. Given their utility in qua…

quant-ph2025

Identification is Pointless: Quantum Coordinates, Localisation of Events, and the Quantum Hole Argument

Viktoria Kabel, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Luca Apadula +4

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 d…