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Localized quantum wave packets can be produced in a variety of physical systems and are the subject of much current research in atomic, molecular, chemical, and condensed-matter physics. They are particularly well suited for studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky , James Porter

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 examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime. We first obtain a regulator-free expression for the transition probability in an arbitrary Hadamard state, working within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

Conventional formulation of QED since the 50s works very well for stationary states and for scattering problems, but with newly arisen challenges from the 80s on, where real time evolution of particles in a nonequilibrium setting are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Shih-Yuin Lin , Bei-Lok Hu

The scattering of light observed through the turbid underwater channel is often regarded as the leading challenge when designing underwater electro-optical imaging systems. There have been many approaches to address the effects of…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-17 Chensheng Wu , Robert Lee , Christopher C. Davis

Wireless Technology Recognition (WTR) and localization are essential in modern communication systems, enabling efficient spectrum management, seamless coexistence of diverse technologies, and accurate positioning in dynamic environments. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Mohammad Cheraghinia , Eli De Poorter , Jaron Fontaine , Merouane Debbah , Adnan Shahid

Recent advances in laser technology have enabled tremendous progress in photochemistry, at the heart of which is the breaking and formation of chemical bonds. Such progress has been greatly facilitated by the development of accurate…

We show an analogy between static quantum emitters coupled to a single mode of a quantum field and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors. We envision a way to simulate a variety of relativistic quantum field settings beyond the reach of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. del Rey , D. Porras , E. Martin-Martinez

Realistic modeling of scattering from curved metallic bodies - such as vehicles and roadside structures - is essential for cellular and vehicular channel modeling as well as radar applications. A practical approach is to approximate curved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ainur Ziganshin , Enrico M. Vitucci , Wim Kotterman , Reiner Thomae , Christian Schneider , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

We introduce a method for the selective preparation and detection of quasiparticle wave packets, based on creation operators that generate dressed, localized excitations on top of interacting vacua of (quasi-)one-dimensional quantum lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mattia Morgavi , Peter Majcen , Marco Rigobello , Simone Montangero , Pietro Silvi

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector modeled as a harmonic oscillator that is coupled to a massless quantum scalar field in the (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system and employ a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 Dimitris Moustos

Deep learning is an increasingly popular approach for inverting surface wave dispersion curves to obtain Vs profiles. However, its generalizability is constrained by the depth and velocity scales of training data. We propose a unified deep…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Tianjian Cheng , Hongrui Xu , Jiayu Feng , Xiongyu Hu , Chaofan Yao

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

In this paper, we study the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) in wavelet space, instead of pixel space, for visual synthesis. Considering the wavelet transform represents the image in spatial and frequency domains, we carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xin Yuan , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Usual uniformly accelerated frame, in Dray-'t Hooft spacetime, does not see the any quantum imprint on Unruh effect due to localised shock wave in Minkowski spacetime. Here we argue that such non-appearance of quantum memory is specific to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-11 Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In this paper we describe two approaches that allow to calculate some thermal features as perceived by different observers in curved spacetimes: the tunnelling method and the Unruh-DeWitt detector. The tunnelling phenomenon is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-16 Giovanni Acquaviva

Utilizing quantum coherence monotone, we reexamine the thermal nature of the Unruh effect of an accelerating detector. We consider an UDW detector coupling to a n-dimensional conformal field in Minkowski spacetime, whose response spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-20 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang , Yihao Zhou

We analyze wavepacket propagation in traveling wave tubes (TWTs) analytically and numerically. TWT design in essence comprises a pencil-like electron beam in vacuum interacting with an electromagnetic wave guided by a slow-wave structure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kasra Rouhi , Filippo Capolino , Alexander Figotin

The concept of nonlinear quantum-beat pump-probe Auger spectroscopy is introduced by discussing a relatively simple four-level model system. We consider a coherent wave packet involving two low-lying states that was prepared by an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Song Bin Zhang , Nina Rohringer

We analyse the response function of an Unruh--DeWitt detector moving with time-dependent acceleration along a one-dimensional trajectory in Minkowski spacetime. To extract the physics of the process, we propose an adiabatic expansion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-26 Luis C. Barbado , Matt Visser