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Since quantum field theories do not possess proper position observables, Unruh-DeWitt detector models serve as a key theoretical tool for extracting localized spatio-temporal information from quantum fields. Most studies have been limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Daniel Hümmer , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

We show that the variation of the ground state entanglement in linear, higher spatial derivatives field theories at zero-temperature have signatures of phase transition. Around the critical point, when the dispersion relation changes from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Suman Ghosh , S. Shankaranarayanan

The statistical mechanics characterization of a finite subsystem embedded in an infinite system is a fundamental question of quantum physics. Nevertheless, a full closed form { for all required entropic measures} does not exist in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Eldad Bettelheim , Aditya Banerjee , Martin B. Plenio , Susana F. Huelga

We investigate the effects of relative motion on entanglement harvesting by considering a pair of Unruh-Dewitt detectors moving at arbitrary, but independent and constant velocities, both linearly interacting with the vacuum scalar field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Cendikiawan Suryaatmadja , Wan Cong , Robert . B. Mann

We analyze entanglement between quantum interacting fields. In particular, we use R\'enyi entropy to quantify the entanglement between the fields in the ground state of the linear $\sigma$ model. We adopt R\'enyi entropy because the failure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniele Teresi , Giuseppe Compagno

We describe the dynamics of a detector modeled by a harmonic oscillator coupled with an otherwise free quantum field in a curved spacetime in terms of covariant equations of motion leading to local observables. To achieve this, we derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Alejandro Blanco Sánchez , Luis J. Garay , Jose de Ramón

Characterizing and quantifying quantum correlations in states of many-particle systems is at the core of a full understanding of phase transitions in matter. In this work, we continue our investigation of the notion of generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolando Somma , Gerardo Ortiz , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Lorenza Viola

We introduce a well-defined and unbiased measure of the strength of correlations in quantum many-particle systems which is based on the relative von Neumann entropy computed from the density operator of correlated and uncorrelated states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Byczuk , J. Kunes , W. Hofstetter , D. Vollhardt

Entanglement plays a prominent role in the study of condensed matter many-body systems: Entanglement measures not only quantify the possible use of these systems in quantum information protocols, but also shed light on their physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Shachar Fraenkel , Moshe Goldstein

In recent years, the presence of local potentials has significantly enriched and diversified the entanglement patterns in monitored free fermion systems. In our approach, we employ the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Yu-Jun Zhao , Xuyang Huang , Yi-Rui Zhang , Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We investigate the back-action from a spatially pointlike particle detector on a quantum scalar field, as characterised by the expectation value of the field's stress-energy tensor, without conditioning on a measurement of the detector.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Adam S. Wilkinson , Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko , William G. Unruh

Assuming a two-qubit system in Werner state which evolves in Heisenberg XY model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction under the effect of different environments. We evaluate and compare quantum entanglement, quantum and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Mohammad Reza Pourkarimi , Majid Rahnama , Hossein Rooholamini

By considering an exactly solvable model of a two interacting spin-1/2 qubits described by the Heisenberg anisotropic interaction in the presence of intrinsic decoherence, we study the dynamics of entanglement quantified by the concurrence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 R. Muthuganesan , V. K. Chandrasekar

We propose a fully covariant model for smeared particle detectors in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. We show how effects related to accelerated motion of the detector and the curvature of spacetime influence the way different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Eduardo Martín-Martínez , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

We continue our investigation of multi-partite open quantum systems comprising layers of structure using the atom-field-medium interactions as a familiarly important example. Same as in Paper I~\cite{HH24} we consider a system of $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

A quantum field theoretical approach, in which a quantum probe is used to investigate the properties generic non-flat FLRW space-times is discussed. The probe is identified with a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Yevgeniya Rabochaya , Sergio Zerbini

Quantum entanglement is analyzed thoroughly in the case of the ground and lowest states of two-electron axially symmetric quantum dots under a perpendicular magnetic field. The individual-particle and the center-of-mass representations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 N. S. Simonovic , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Applying the techniques of light-front quantization to quantize a scalar field in a monochromatic gravitational wave background, we manage to investigate the response of the Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a scalar field in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

We discuss how to formulate a condition for choosing the vacuum state of a quantum scalar field on a timelike hyperplane in the general boundary formulation (GBF) using the coupling to an Unruh-DeWitt detector. We explicitly study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Ralf Banisch , Frank Hellmann , Dennis Raetzel

We investigate system-environment correlations based on the exact dynamics of a qubit and its environment in the framework of pure decoherence (phase damping). We focus on the relation of decoherence and the build-up of system-reservoir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Pernice , W. T. Strunz