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We study the dynamics of quantum coherence under Unruh thermal noise and seek under which condition the coherence can be frozen in a relativistic setting. We find that the frozen condition is either (i) the initial state is prepared as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

Unruh-DeWitt Hamiltonian couples a scalar field with a two-level atom serving as a particle detector model. Two such detectors held by different observers following general trajectories can be used to study entanglement behavior in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-08 Kamil Bradler

We investigate the decoherence of an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinor fields in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By employing the Schwinger-Keldysh influence functional formalism, we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Ran Li , Zhong-Xiao Man , Jin Wang

Entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is a well-known fact that, in recent times, is being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually understood formulation studies the possibility of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We examine a quantised massive scalar field in $(1+1)$-dimensional spatially compact cosmological spacetimes in which the early time and late time expansion laws provide distinguished definitions of Fock "in" and "out" vacua, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vladimir Toussaint , Jorma Louko

We investigate the interaction between a moving detector and a quantum field, especially about how the trajectory of the detector would affect the vacuum fluctuations when the detector is moves in a quantum field (the Unruh effect). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I-Chin Wang

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

Employing a non-perturbative approach based on an instantaneous interaction between a two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector and a massive scalar field, we investigate the ability of the field to generate or destroy coherence in the detector by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 N. K. Kollas , D. Moustos , M. R. Muñoz

We investigate the Unruh-Fulling effect in a class of nonlocal field theories by examining both the number operator and Unruh-DeWitt detector methods. Unlike in previous literature, we use Unruh quantization to quantize the matter field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

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

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 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

Probing quantumness in curved spacetime is regarded as one of fundamental and important topics in the framework of relativistic quantum information. In this work, we focus on the theoretical feasibility of probing quantum properties in de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

Can a relativistic quantum field theory be consistently described as a theory of localizable particles? There are many known issues with such a description, indicating an answer in the negative. In this paper, we examine these obstructions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Maria Papageorgiou , Jason Pye

Modeling the qubit by a two-level semiclassical detector coupled to a massless scalar field, we investigate how the Unruh effect affects the nonlocality and entanglement of two-qubit and three-qubit states when one of the entangled qubits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

We present a new method by which, in principle, it is possible to "see in absolute darkness," i.e., without exchanging any real quanta through quantum fields. This is possible because objects modify the mode structure of the vacuum in their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Aida Ahmadzadegan , Fatemeh Lalegani , Achim Kempf , Robert B. Mann

We analyse a quantum observer who falls geodesically towards the Cauchy horizon of a $(1+1)$-dimensional eternal black hole spacetime with the global structure of the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution. The observer interacts with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

We quantify the quantum correlations between two accelerated detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cavity. It has been realized that an accelerated detector will experience a thermal bath, which is termed the Unruh effect. We examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 He Wang , Jin Wang

We present simple arguments that detectors moving with constant acceleration (even acceleration for a finite time) should detect particles. The effect is seen to be universal. Moreover, detectors undergoing linear acceleration and uniform,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil T. Akhmedov , Douglas Singleton

It is well known that a detector, coupled linearly to a quantum field and accelerating through the inertial vacuum with a constant acceleration $g$, will behave as though it is immersed in a radiation field with temperature $T=(g/2\pi)$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dawood Kothawala , T. Padmanabhan

The influence functional is derived for a massive scalar field in the ground state, coupled to a uniformly accelerating DeWitt monopole detector in $D+1$ dimensional Minkowski space. This confirms the local nature of the Unruh effect, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. R. Anglin