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We consider, in de Sitter spacetime, both freely falling and static two-level atoms in interaction with a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the de Sitter-invariant vacuum, and separately calculate the contributions of vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhiying Zhu , Hongwei Yu

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the internal dynamics of both freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar field in de Sitter spacetime. We find that the atomic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

We study, by separately calculating the contributions of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction to the atomic energy level shift, the Lamb shift of a static two-level atom interacting with real massless scalar fields in the Boulware,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the geometric phase acquired by freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar fields in de Sitter-invariant vacuum. We find that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

The seminar discovery by Gibbons and Hawking that a freely falling detector observes an isotropic background of thermal radiation reveals that de Sitter space is equivalent to a thermal bath at the Gibbons-Hawking temperature in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu

In this paper, we explore the connection between the curvature of the background De Sitter space-time with the spectroscopic study of entanglement of two atoms. Our set up is in the context of an Open Quantum System (OQS), where the two…

We study the Lamb shift of a two-level atom arising from its coupling to the conformal massless scalar field, which satisfies the Dirichlet boundary conditions, in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum in the BTZ spacetime, and find that the Lamb shift…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-30 Yaqian Yu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

The sustained intense experimental activity around atomic spectroscopy and the resulting high-precision measurements of atomic spectral lines attract interest in Lamb shift as a witness for noninertial effects in quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Navdeep Arya , Sandeep K. Goyal

We consider the influence of acceleration on the radiative energy shifts of atoms in Minkowski space. We study a two-level atom coupled to a scalar quantum field. Using a Heisenberg picture approach, we are able to separate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Juergen Audretsch , Rainer Mueller

Anti-de Sitter spacetime and the static patch of de Sitter spacetime are arenas for investigating thermal and finite-size effects seen by an accelerated quantum observer. We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector in uniform circular motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-26 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Jorma Louko

In this study, we revisit the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect in the context of two-level single and entangled atomic systems that are static in a thermal bath. We consider the interaction between the systems and a massless scalar field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Archan S. Majumdar

We demonstrate that the static ground state atom, which interacts with a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the de Sitter invariant vacuum, can obtain a position-dependent energy-level shift and this shift could cause a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

The Lamb shift results from the coupling of an atom to vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields, so corrections are expected to arise when the spacetime is curved since the vacuum fluctuations are modified by the presence of spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-02 Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

We analyze, in the paradigm of open quantum systems, the reduced dynamics of a freely-falling two-level detector in de Sitter space-time in weak interaction with a reservoir of fluctuating quantized conformal scalar fields in the de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-23 Hongwei Yu

We argue that the energy levels of an Unruh detector experience an effect similar to the Lamb shift in Quantum Electrodynamics. As a consequence, the spectrum of energy levels in a curved background is different from that in flat space. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

We investigate the radiative processes of a quantum system composed by two identical two-level atoms in the de Sitter spacetime, interacting with a conformally coupled massless scalar field prepared in the de Sitter-invariant vacuum. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Xiaobao Liu , Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

We discuss the consequences of unique symmetry of de Sitter spacetime, which is invariant under the modified translations, ${\bf r}\rightarrow {\bf r} -e^{Ht}{\bf a}$, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter. Due to this symmetry, all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 G. E. Volovik

We study the spontaneous de-excitation and excitation of accelerated atoms on arbitrary stationary trajectories (``generalized Unruh effect''). We consider the effects of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction separately. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Juergen Audretsch , Rainer Mueller , Markus Holzmann

The Lamb shift as an additional energy correction induced by environments usually has a marginal contribution and hence is neglected. We demonstrate that the Lamb shift, which modifies the energy levels, can influence the heat current to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zi-chen Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

We investigate the Lamb shift of centripetally accelerated atoms coupled to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations. Focusing on a very small orbital radius (so that the tangential speed remains nonrelativistic and the proper centripetal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yan Peng , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu
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