A quantum reference frame with one turning point produces a large, Planck-constant-independent shift in the measured system's position relative to any classical treatment.
Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations
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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. We calculate, to first order, how its decay depends on whether its superposition of velocities is coherent or incoherent. Further, we generalize the framework of quantum reference frames to allow transformations to the rest frames of second-quantized Unruh DeWitt detectors. As an application, we show how to transform into the rest frame of a decaying particle that, in the laboratory frame, is in a linear superposition of relativistically differing velocities.
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Large effects from quantum reference frames
A quantum reference frame with one turning point produces a large, Planck-constant-independent shift in the measured system's position relative to any classical treatment.