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Particle Mixing and Quantum Reference Frames

  • Antonio Capolupo,
  • Gabriele Pisacane and
  • Aniello Quaranta

19 January 2026

We discuss the problem of defining rest frames for mixed particles, showing that Quantum Reference Frames are necessary to incorporate mass superpositions. This approach reveals a strictly frame-dependent nature of entanglement. We investigate the ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,782 Views
16 Pages

30 December 2022

Quantum reference frames are expected to differ from classical reference frames because they have to implement typical quantum features such as fluctuations and correlations. Here, we show that fluctuations and correlations of reference variables, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,048 Views
28 Pages

9 January 2018

Receivers able to track satellites belonging to different GNSSs (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) are available on the market. To compute coordinates and velocities it is necessary to identify all the elements that contribute to interoperability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,061 Views
27 Pages

Role of Reference Frames for a Safe Human–Robot Interaction

  • Alberto Borboni,
  • Roberto Pagani,
  • Samuele Sandrini,
  • Giuseppe Carbone and
  • Nicola Pellegrini

20 June 2023

Safety plays a key role in human–robot interactions in collaborative robot (cobot) applications. This paper provides a general procedure to guarantee safe workstations allowing human operations, robot contributions, the dynamical environment, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,325 Views
17 Pages

Linking Planetary Ephemeris Reference Frames to ICRF via Millisecond Pulsars

  • Li Guo,
  • Yueqi Song,
  • Zhen Yan,
  • Liang Li and
  • Guangli Wang

7 February 2025

The positions of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) can be determined with sub-milliarcsecond (mas) accuracy using both Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and timing, referenced to the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and planetary epheme...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,469 Views
16 Pages

Flexible Use of Spatial Frames of Reference for Object–Location Memory in Older Adults

  • Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik,
  • Rosanna K. Olsen,
  • Jennifer D. Ryan and
  • Morgan D. Barense

20 November 2021

In memory, representations of spatial features are stored in different reference frames; features relative to our position are stored egocentrically and features relative to each other are stored allocentrically. Accessing these representations engag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
25 Pages

23 January 2026

Two novel spacetimes are introduced in this work as anisotropic preferred reference frames tailored for applications in relativistic quantum information systems. The resulting anisotropic geometry arises intrinsically from the underlying algebraic st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,176 Views
19 Pages

How can the interactive mode of a map be optimized to facilitate efficient positioning and improve cognitive efficiency? This paper addresses this crucial aspect of map design. It explores the impact of spatial reference frames, map dimensionality, a...

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  • Open Access
295 Views
9 Pages

11 December 2025

Spatial cognition refers to how people transform physical spatial information into mental representations and manipulate it to perform further spatial computation and reasoning. Previous research has demonstrated that the frame of reference (FOR) in...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,457 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2021

The paper offers a general symbolic method to study the motion in a non-inertial reference frame. In order to achieve this, we use the algebraic and geometric properties of the Lie group of special orthogonal tensors, SO3, and the Lie group of the ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,646 Views
28 Pages

15 November 2021

This study examines the invariance properties of the thermodynamic entropy production in its global (integral), local (differential), bilinear, and macroscopic formulations, including dimensional scaling, invariance to fixed displacements, rotations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,687 Views
16 Pages

Skin cleansing represents a process of mechanical and chemical removal of dirt, pollutants as well as microbiota from the skin. While skin cleansing can help maintain good health, protect us from infections, illnesses and ailments, skin cleansing can...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,037 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Stationary- and Synchronous-Reference Frames for Three-Phase Three-Wire Grid-Connected Converter AC Current Regulators

  • Israel D. L. Costa,
  • Danilo I. Brandao,
  • Lourenço Matakas Junior,
  • Marcelo G. Simões and
  • Lenin M. F. Morais

10 December 2021

The current state of the art shows that unbalance and distortion on the voltage waveforms at the terminals of a grid-connected inverter disturb its output currents. This paper compares AC linear current regulators for three-phase three-wire voltage s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,501 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2020

The local reference frame (LRF) acts as a critical role in 3D local shape description and matching. However, most existing LRFs are hand-crafted and suffer from limited repeatability and robustness. This paper presents the first attempt to learn an L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,930 Views
13 Pages

8 February 2016

Crustal movement is one of the main factors influencing the change of the Earth system, especially in its vertical direction, which affects people’s daily life through the frequent occurrence of earthquakes, geological disasters, and so on. In order...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,774 Views
29 Pages

CARIB18: A Stable Geodetic Reference Frame for Geological Hazard Monitoring in the Caribbean Region

  • Guoquan Wang,
  • Hanlin Liu,
  • Glen S. Mattioli,
  • Meghan M. Miller,
  • Karl Feaux and
  • John Braun

21 March 2019

We have developed a Stable Caribbean Reference Frame 2018 (CARIB18) using long-term continuous observations from 18 continuously operating Global Positioning System (GPS) stations fixed on the margins of the stable portion of the Caribbean plate. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,082 Views
18 Pages

Regional GNSS Common Mode Error Correction to Refine the Global Reference Frame

  • Ruyuan Wang,
  • Junping Chen,
  • Danan Dong,
  • Weijie Tan and
  • Xinhao Liao

28 November 2024

Common mode error (CME) arises from various sources, including unknown regional errors, potential geophysical signals, and other factors present in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) coordinate solutions, undeniably affecting the GNSS precisio...

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  • Open Access
1,448 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2024

With the release of Gaia DR3, evaluating the performance and consistency of its reference frame (Gaia-CRF3) with the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) has become a critical task. Gaia-CRF3 serves as the second non-rotating inertial refe...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,744 Views
17 Pages

5 March 2021

Inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based joint angle estimation is an increasingly mature technique that has a broad range of applications in clinics, biomechanics and robotics. However, the deviations of different IMUs’ reference frames, referring to I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
992 Views
25 Pages

28 February 2025

This paper offers new insights into gravitational interactions within a general non-inertial reference frame. By utilizing symbolic tensor calculus, the study establishes a unified framework that connects time derivatives in non-inertial frames to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,371 Views
15 Pages

16 August 2022

This study implemented a stable Regional Reference Frame in Shanghai, East China (called SHRRF), using seven years of continuous GNSS observations from the Shanghai Continuously Operating Reference System stations (SHCORS) to examine reclaimed coast&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,898 Views
22 Pages

Accurate comprehension of others’ thoughts and intentions is crucial for smooth social interactions, wherein understanding their perceptual experiences serves as a fundamental basis for this high-level social cognition. However, previous resear...

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  • Open Access
1,167 Views
19 Pages

Contribution of PPP with Ambiguity Resolution to the Maintenance of Terrestrial Reference Frame

  • Ruyuan Wang,
  • Junping Chen,
  • Yize Zhang,
  • Weijie Tan and
  • Xinhao Liao

27 March 2025

Precise Point Positioning (PPP) provides static positioning at the millimeter level and kinematic positioning ranging from millimeters to decimeters globally. Unlike the traditional network solution, PPP does not require data from other reference sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,173 Views
20 Pages

26 October 2019

In this paper we present a novel no-reference video quality measure, NR-FFM (no-reference frame–freezing measure), designed to estimate quality degradations caused by frame freezing of streamed video. The performance of the measure was evaluate...

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  • Open Access
2,011 Views
22 Pages

30 September 2024

This study examines the developmental pattern of spatial frames of reference (FoRs) in Chinese preschoolers using the naturalistic data elicited from the Beijing Early Childhood Mandarin Corpus. Altogether, 2837 static spatial sentences were identifi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,109 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2024

The cost of offloading tasks is a crucial parameter that influences the task selection of fog nodes. Low-cost tasks can be completed quickly, while high-cost tasks are rarely chosen. Therefore, it is essential to design an effective incentive mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,801 Views
19 Pages

Reference Frame Induced Symmetry Breaking on Holographic Screens

  • Chris Fields,
  • James F. Glazebrook and
  • Antonino Marcianò

3 March 2021

Any interaction between finite quantum systems in a separable joint state can be viewed as encoding classical information on an induced holographic screen. Here we show that when such an interaction is represented as a measurement, the quantum refere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,558 Views
12 Pages

4 April 2023

This paper studies the effect of reference frame selection in sensor-to-sensor extrinsic calibration when formulated as a motion-based hand–eye calibration problem. As the sensor trajectories typically contain some composition of noise, the aim...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,522 Views
29 Pages

21 January 2020

We have established a stable regional geodetic reference frame using long-history (13.5 years on average) observations from 55 continuously operated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The regional...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,682 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2020

We review the problem of transforming electromagnetic fields between inertial and rotating reference frames. We compare the method of straightforward tensor coordinate transformations adopted by Schiff in his well-known paper of 1939 with the method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,257 Views
14 Pages

A Comparative Study of Weighting Methods for Local Reference Frame

  • Wuyong Tao,
  • Xianghong Hua,
  • Kegen Yu,
  • Ruisheng Wang and
  • Xiaoxing He

6 May 2020

In the field of photogrammetric engineering, computer vision, and graphics, local shape description is an active research area. A wide variety of local shape descriptors (LSDs) have been designed for different applications, such as shape retrieval, o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,107 Views
8 Pages

Machine Learning-Assisted Measurement Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution on Reference Frame Calibration

  • Sihao Zhang,
  • Jingyang Liu,
  • Guigen Zeng,
  • Chunhui Zhang,
  • Xingyu Zhou and
  • Qin Wang

24 September 2021

In most of the realistic measurement device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) systems, efficient, real-time feedback controls are required to maintain system stability when facing disturbance from either external environment or imperfect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
652 Views
24 Pages

An Intrinsic Coordinate Reference Frame Procedure I: Tensorial Canonical Weyl Scalars

  • Cooper K. Watson,
  • William Julius,
  • Patrick Brown,
  • Donald Salisbury and
  • Gerald B. Cleaver

26 November 2025

The canonical quantization of gravity in general relativity is greatly simplified by the artificial decomposition of space time into a 3 + 1 formalism. Such a simplification appears to come at the cost of general covariance. This quantization procedu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,976 Views
27 Pages

30 April 2022

Droplets generated in microfluidic channels are effective self-contained micromixers and micro-reactors for use in a multiplicity of chemical synthesis and bioanalytical applications. Droplet microfluidic systems have the ability to generate multitud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,429 Views
13 Pages

A Parameter Independent Stator Current Space-Vector Reference Frame-Based Sensorless IPMSM Drive Using Sliding Mode Control

  • Mohammadreza Moradian,
  • Jafar Soltani,
  • Mohamed Benbouzid and
  • Abbas Najjar-Khodabakhsh

22 April 2021

In this paper, a sliding mode control is presented for direct torque and stator flux control of interior permanent magnet synchronous motor in a rotor speed sensorless drive system. The control scheme is developed in a specific synchronous rotating r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,083 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2013

We present a new interpretation of a local framework for informationdynamics, including the transfer entropy, by defining a moving frame of reference for theobserver of dynamics in lattice systems. This formulation is inspired by the idea ofinvestiga...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,382 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of the Multiple Reference Frame Approach for the Modelling of an Axial Cooling Fan

  • Randi Franzke,
  • Simone Sebben,
  • Tore Bark,
  • Emil Willeson and
  • Alexander Broniewicz

31 July 2019

The modelling of rotating parts, such as axial fans, is one of the main challenges of current CFD simulations of industrial applications. Different methods are available, but the most commonly used is the multiple reference frame (MRF) method. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,284 Views
15 Pages

Validation of Inertial-Measurement-Unit-Based Ex Vivo Knee Kinematics during a Loaded Squat before and after Reference-Frame-Orientation Optimisation

  • Svenja Sagasser,
  • Adrian Sauer,
  • Christoph Thorwächter,
  • Jana G. Weber,
  • Allan Maas,
  • Matthias Woiczinski,
  • Thomas M. Grupp and
  • Ariana Ortigas-Vásquez

23 May 2024

Recently, inertial measurement units have been gaining popularity as a potential alternative to optical motion capture systems in the analysis of joint kinematics. In a previous study, the accuracy of knee joint angles calculated from inertial data a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,040 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2023

Alfvén waves play an important role in the stability, heating, and transport of magnetized plasmas. They are found to be ubiquitous in solar winds (SW), which mainly propagate outward from the Sun, especially in high-speed streams that origina...

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  • Open Access
90 Citations
26,568 Views
13 Pages

For most professionals to succeed in the current job market, they need some entrepreneurial skills (ES). This study aimed to describe and systematize these skills, considering the current globalization and digital transformation phenomena. The docume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,179 Views
17 Pages

This paper proposes a synchronous reference frame (SRF) control strategy for a single-phase, three-level, dual-buck photovoltaic (PV) inverter. The concept of virtual d-q transformation is adapted to the current control of the inverter, and the repet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,314 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2024

Prior work has shown that perceived angular elevation relative to a visible horizon/ground plane is exaggerated with a gain of about 1.5. Here, we investigated whether estimates of angular elevation remain exaggerated when no such visual gravitationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,544 Views
16 Pages

Online Handwriting Recognition Method with a Non-Inertial Reference Frame Based on the Measurement of Linear Accelerations and Differential Geometry: An Alternative to Quaternions

  • Griselda Stephany Abarca Jiménez,
  • Carmen Caritina Muñoz Garnica,
  • Mario Alfredo Reyes Barranca,
  • Jesús Mares Carreño,
  • Manuel Vladimir Vega Blanco and
  • Francisco Gutiérrez Galicia

21 August 2024

This work describes a mathematical model for handwriting devices without a specific reference surface (SRS). The research was carried out on two hypotheses: the first considers possible circular segments that could be made during execution for the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,302 Views
22 Pages

27 March 2023

The local reference frame (LRF) plays a vital role in local 3D shape description and matching. Numerous LRF methods have been proposed in recent decades. However, few LRFs can achieve a balance between repeatability and robustness under exposure to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,846 Views
14 Pages

13 September 2024

This study analyzes the turbomachinery flow of a gas turbine using OpenFOAM, an open-source CFD code. While foam-extend, a version of OpenFOAM, includes tools for turbomachinery analysis, some of its codes are incomplete, resulting in incorrect resul...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
849 Views
15 Pages

26 February 2025

With the application and promotion of space geodesy, the popularization of remote sensing technology, and the development of artificial intelligence, a more accurate and stable Terrestrial Reference Frame (TRF) has become more urgent. For example, se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,654 Views
13 Pages

4 October 2022

This paper presents a triple rotating coordinate transformed vector control method for dual three-phase permanent magnet (PM) machines. In the proposed scheme, the control variables are converted to three sets of αβ components directly, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,171 Views
14 Pages

9 August 2023

This paper presents a comprehensive timing optimization methodology for power-efficient high-resolution image sensors with column-parallel single-slope analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The aim of the method is to optimize the read-out timing for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,278 Views
17 Pages

Modified Synchronous Reference Frame Based Shunt Active Power Filter with Fuzzy Logic Control Pulse Width Modulation Inverter

  • Suleiman Musa,
  • Mohd Amran Mohd Radzi,
  • Hashim Hizam,
  • Noor Izzri Abdul Wahab,
  • Yap Hoon and
  • Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri

29 May 2017

Harmonic distortion in power networks has greatly reduced power quality and this affects system stability. In order to mitigate this power quality issue, the shunt active power filter (SAPF) has been widely applied and it is proven to be the best sol...

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