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Equation 11 · Part 2 · How Much of Gravitationally Induced Entanglement Is in the Eye of the Frame

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φent\varphi_{\text{ent}}
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The BMV protocol belongs to Bose and eight coauthors, and to Marletto and Vedral, who proposed it independently on the same day in 2017 [ 1 , 2 ] . The quantum-reference-frame formalism used throughout belongs to Giacomini, Castro-Ruiz and Brukner, refined onto perspective-neutral foundations by Vanrietvelde, Höhn, Giacomini and Castro-Ruiz, with the general principle that entanglement is frame-relative traceable further back to Peres and Terno for relativistic observers and to Bartlett, Rudolph and Spekkens for reference frames as a quantum resource more generally [ 4 , 5 , 7 , 8 ] . Christodoulou and Rovelli’s covariant reading of what the BMV effect actually is belongs to them [ 6 ] ; the…

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