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The Unruh effect, central to quantum field theory in curved spacetime, states that uniformly accelerated observers perceive the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal ensemble of Rindler excitations. Building on this foundation and drawing analogies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Kevin Player

The study of the Unruh effect naturally raises the interest for a deeper understanding of the analogy between temperature and acceleration. A recurring question is whether an accelerated frame can be distinguished from an inertial thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 A. P. C. M. Lima , G. Alencar , R. R. Landim

In this work, we investigate the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems (with finite interaction time). We consider a detector moving along a spatial trajectory within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

In this contribution we describe some interesting interplay between quantum theory, general relativity and thermodynamics. In order to highlight the connection between these theories, we describe two approaches that allow to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-28 Giovanni Acquaviva

A long-standing debate on Unruh effect is about its obscure thermal nature. In this Letter, we use quantum Fisher information (QFI) as an effective probe to explore the thermal nature of Unruh effect from both local and global perspectives.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang

We analyzed how entanglement harvesting is affected by the performance of a measurement on the quantum field. The measurement on the field is modelled as the coupling of a particle detector to the field, followed by a projective measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Héctor Maeso-García , José Polo-Gómez , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Recent results in relativistic quantum information and quantum thermodynamics have independently shown that in the quantum regime, a system may fail to thermalise when subject to quantum-controlled application of the same, single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Joshua Foo , Magdalena Zych

Relativistic quantum metrology provides an optimal strategy for the estimation of parameters encoded in quantum fields in flat and curved spacetime. These parameters usually correspond to physical quantities of interest such as proper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Dominik Šafránek , Jan Kohlrus , David Edward Bruschi , Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

Using standard linear response relations, we derive the quantum limit on the sensitivity of a generic linear-response position detector, and the noise temperature of a generic linear amplifier. Particular emphasis is placed on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Clerk

Imaging in quantum optics (QO) is usually formulated in the languages of quantum mechanics and Fourier optics. While relatively advanced fields, notions such as different reference frames and the degradation of entanglement due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Nicholas Bornman , Achim Kempf , Andrew Forbes

We investigate the fate of initial entanglement between two accelerated detectors with respect to an observer attached to one of the detectors. Both $(1+1)$ and $(1+3)$ spacetime dimensions are being considered here, with the detectors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Pratyusha Chowdhury , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We propose a new strategy for determining the equation of state of a relativistic thermal quantum field theory by considering it in a moving reference system. In this frame an observer can measure the entropy density of the system directly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-07-23 Leonardo Giusti , Michele Pepe

We propose an approach to measuring nonresonant coupled systems, which gives a parametrically smaller error than the conventional fast projective measurements. The approach takes into account that, due to the coupling, excitations are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 L. Fedichkin , M. Shapiro , M. I. Dykman

The instantaneous transition rate of an arbitrarily accelerated Unruh-DeWitt particle detector on four-dimensional Minkowski space is ill defined without regularisation. We show that Schlicht's regularisation as the zero-size limit of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

The global topology of spacetime, though invisible to local curvature measurements, leaves signatures on the correlation functions of quantum fields. We study these signatures using an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector operating in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Nirmalya Kajuri , Sheeshram Siddh

We derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix of a uniformly accelerating quantum detector in arbitrary dimensions, generically coupled to a field initially in its vacuum state, and analyze its late time regime. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Julio Arrechea , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

We investigate when temporal ordering becomes operationally meaningful in relativistic quantum field theory using localized detector models. A time parameter alone does not ensure that different sequences of operations are physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Marcello Rotondo

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al. as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-05 Jorma Louko

We study the influence of the thermal background on the existence of the anti-Unruh effect. For the massless scalar field, we present that the anti-Unruh effect can appear when the detector is accelerated in the thermal field, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang