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We argue that the energy levels of an Unruh detector experience an effect similar to the Lamb shift in Quantum Electrodynamics. As a consequence, the spectrum of energy levels in a curved background is different from that in flat space. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

We formulate a quantum arrival time measurement process for a Bosonic many-particle system, with the aim of extracting statistical information on single-particle properties. The arrival time is based on a dynamical multi-particle absorption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Jukka Kiukas , Andreas Ruschhaupt

We present a quantum-optical platform for simulating relativistic detector-field interactions using entangled nonlinear biphoton sources (ENBSs), realized through phase-controlled single-photon frequency-comb (SPFC) sources. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) plays a vital role in quantum precision measurement, quantum information, many-body physics, and other domains. Obtaining the QFI from experiment for a quantum state reveals insights such as the limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Qi Liu

We show that particle detectors, such as 2-level atoms, in non-inertial motion (or in gravitational fields) could be used to build quantum gates for the processing of quantum information. Concretely, we show that through suitably chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-17 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , David Aasen , Achim Kempf

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

Quantum-enhanced, idler-free sensing protocol to measure the response of a target object to the frequency of a probe in a noisy and lossy scenario is proposed. In this protocol, a target with frequency-dependent reflectivity embedded in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Mateo Casariego , Yasser Omar , Mikel Sanz

We examine the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in an arbitrary Hadamard state in four-dimensional curved spacetime. Using smooth switching functions to turn on and off the interaction, we obtain a regulator-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

We investigate the effect of imperfections in realistic detectors upon the problem of quantum state and parameter estimation by continuous monitoring of an open quantum system. Specifically, we have reexamined the system of a two-level atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Warszawski , Jay Gambetta , H. M. Wiseman

We study the performance of a single qubit-laser as a quantum sensor to measure the amplitude and phase of a driving field. By using parameter estimation theory we show that certain suitable field quadratures are optimal observables in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

Critical quantum metrology exploits the dramatic growth of the quantum Fisher information near quantum phase transitions to enhance the precision of parameter estimation. This enhancement is commonly associated with a closing energy gap,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 George Mihailescu , Karol Gietka

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 address the scattering of a quantum particle by a one-dimensional barrier potential over a set of discrete positions. We formalize the problem as a continuous-time quantum walk on a lattice with an impurity, and use the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Francesco Zatelli , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

We study the response function of Unruh-deWitt detectors placed in a flat spacetime inside a thin matter shell. We show that the response function distinguishes between the local and global (Minkowski) inertial frames and picks up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-10 Wan Cong , Jiri Bicak , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

If an Unruh-DeWitt detector operates for an infinite proper time along the trajectory of a uniformly accelerated observer in Fock space then induced transition rate of the detector is proportional to Planck distribution. For a realistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-20 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Gopal Sardar

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

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 discuss a parameter estimation problem using quantum decoherece in the double-slit interferometer. We consider a particle coupled to a massive scalar field after the particle passing through the double slit and solve the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Akira Matsumura , Taishi Ikeda , Shingo Kukita

Vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields provide an unavoidable environment for any quantum system coupled to it. We study the interplay between boundary conditions and acceleration in determining decoherence of a two-level Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Shagun Kaushal , Kinjalk Lochan

The quantum Fisher information matrix provides us with a tool to determine the precision, in any multiparametric estimation protocol, through quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we study simultaneous and individual estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 L. Bakmou , A. Slaoui , M. Daoud , R. Ahl Laamara
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