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Does the measurement of a quantum system necessarily break Lorentz invariance? We present a simple model of a detector that measures the spacetime localization of a relativistic particle in a Lorentz invariant manner. The detector does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald Marolf , Carlo Rovelli

The quantum channel between two particle detectors provides a prototype framework for the study of wireless quantum communication via relativistic quantum fields. In this article we calculate the classical channel capacity between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Robert H. Jonsson

It is shown that an ideal measurement of a one-particle wave packet state of a relativistic quantum field in Minkowski spacetime enables superluminal signalling. The result holds for a measurement that takes place over an intervention…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Leron Borsten , Michel Buck , Fay Dowker

In this work we first collect and generalize several existing non-perturbative models for the interaction between a single two-level qubit detector and a relativistic quantum scalar field in arbitrary curved spacetimes, where the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Erickson Tjoa

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu

Here a special case of perturbation in quantum harmonic oscillator is studied. Here we assume the perturbed potential to be a Harmonic Oscillator that has been shifted in the position space.We construct the new creation and annihilation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Sankarshan Sahu

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle results in one of the strangest quantum behaviors: an oscillator can never truly be at rest. Even in its lowest energy state, at a temperature of absolute zero, its position and momentum are still subject…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 F. Lecocq , J. D. Teufel , J. Aumentado , R. W. Simmonds

We propose a scheme to study the effect of motion on measurements of a quantum field carried out by a finite-size detector. We introduce a model of projective detection of a localised field mode in an arbitrary reference frame. We apply it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 Andrzej Dragan , Jason Doukas , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , David Edward Bruschi

As it is well known, the Minkowski vacuum appears thermally populated to a quantum mechanical detector on a uniformly accelerating course. We investigate how this thermal radiation may contribute to the classical nature of the detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 J. - G. Demers

Thermal phenomena in quantum field theory can be detected with the aid of particle detectors coupled to quantum fields along stationary worldlines, by testing whether the response of such a detector satisfies the detailed balance version of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

Despite numerous proposals investigating various properties of accelerated detectors in different settings, detecting the Unruh effect remains challenging due to the typically weak signal at achievable accelerations. For an atom with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Navdeep Arya , D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan , Sandeep K. Goyal

The Unruh effect predicts that an accelerated observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath, but its direct observation requires extreme accelerations beyond current experimental reach. Foundational theory [Olson & Ralph, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhenghao Luo , Yi Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zihan Xie , Zehua Tian , Yiheng Lin

We consider a radiation from a uniformly accelerating harmonic oscillator whose minimal coupling to the scalar field changes suddenly. The exact time evolutions of the quantum operators are given in terms of a classical solution of a forced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jae-Kwan Kim

Several approaches to quantum gravity lead to nonlocal modifications of fields' dynamics. This, in turn, can give rise to nonlocal modifications of quantum mechanics at non-relativistic energies. Here, we analyze the nonlocal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Marzena Ciszak , Alessio Belenchia , Antonello Ortolan , Francesco Marino

Quantum nonclassicality is the basic building stone for the vast majority of quantum information applications and methods of its generation are at the forefront of research. One of the obstacles any method needs to clear is the looming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Petr Marek , Lukas Lachman , Lukas Slodicka , Radim Filip

We study the control problem of regulating the purity of a quantum harmonic oscillator in a Gaussian state via weak measurements. Specifically, we assume time-invariant Hamiltonian dynamics and that control is exerted via the back-action…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Ralph Sabbagh , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

This paper describes perturbative framework, on the basis of closed-time-path formalism, for studying quasiuniform relativistic quantum field systems near equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasistationary systems. At the first part, starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Niégawa

Perturbation theory in quantum mechanics studies how quantum systems interact with their environmental perturbations. Harmonic perturbation is a rare special case of time-dependent perturbations in which exact analysis exists. Some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-01 Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Dah-Wei Chiou , Cheng-En Wu

We study the full entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors with no direct interaction in between but each coupled to a common quantum field and moving back-to-back in the field vacuum. For two detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We show that uniformly accelerated detectors can display genuinely thermal features even if the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition fails to hold. These features include satisfying thermal detailed balance and having a Planckian response…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Raul Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon
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