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  "abstract": "At eleven parameters a frame is a body with a momentum. The quantum step of the theory makes that momentum an operator, and a frame body in a superposition of momenta is a quantum reference frame. This letter asks what using such a frame does to it, in a model with one assumption. An ideal meter comoving with the frame body reads the canonical spins of test bodies, and nothing else. Relative to the frame each spin is turned by the Wigner rotation of the composition law, by an angle that depends on the frame's own rapidity. So every spin the frame serves is a weak measurement of the frame's velocity. The quantum Fisher information per spin is the square of the derivative of the Wigner angle, in closed form. For a frame at rest it is tanh 2 (θt/2), θt the test body's rapidity, and it is bounded by 1/ cosh 2 θF . With polarised spins and the records kept, n spins sharpen the frame's rapidity, to the van Trees bound 1/(σ -2 + n F ) within one percent. With the records discarded, or with unpolarised spins, the frame's momentum coherence decays by the overlap of the two rotated spin states per spin. For a Gaussian frame its purity is 1/ 1 + N F σ 2 , equal to the purity of the spins relative to the frame. The origin of the frame is the conjugate reference. Each discarded spin kicks the frame's position by ±ℏφ ′ /2M , a random walk, and the kept records widen it by the Heisenberg bound. The velocity reference is kept or sharpened while the origin degrades, the two being the conjugate blocks of the eleven. The frame of an entangled pair with a sharp total momentum has nothing to learn and no origin to lose. The sixteen of a body being the operators of two qubits, a boost is a coupling that is not a gate, and its cost in a simulation is stated. The statements are checked numerically.",
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      "name": "Patrick B. Reynaud"
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  "published": "2026-10-05",
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  "title": "Quantum reference frames at eleven parameters: the Wigner rotation measures the frame",
  "title_text": "Quantum reference frames at eleven parameters: the Wigner rotation measures the frame",
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