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We present a model for the coupling of non-relativistic quantum systems with a linearized gravitational field from a Lagrangian formulation. The coupling strongly resembles the light-matter interaction models that are known to be well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-30 Rémi Faure , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

We investigate unitarily inequivalent representations of the algebra of operators in quantum field theory in the cases where there is a Fock representation of the commutation relations. We examine more closely the operational definition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 F. Sobrero , M. S. Soares , T. Guerreiro , N. F. Svaiter

Several quantities of interest in quantum information, including entanglement and purity, are nonlinear functions of the density matrix and cannot, even in principle, correspond to proper quantum observables. Any method aimed to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 Matteo G. A. Paris

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a fundamental quantity of interest in many areas from quantum metrology to quantum information theory. It can in particular be used as a witness to establish the degree of multi-particle entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Aniket Rath , Cyril Branciard , Anna Minguzzi , Benoît Vermersch

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

In open quantum systems, we study the quantum Fisher information of acceleration for a uniformly accelerated two-level atom coupled to fluctuating electromagnetic fields in the Minkowski vacuum. With the time evolution, for the initial atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Mengge Zheng , Baoyuan Yang , Zixu Zhao

We study Unruh phenomena for a qudit detector coupled to a quantized scalar field, comparing its response to that of a standard qubit-based Unruh-DeWitt detector. We show that there are limitations to the utility of the detailed balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Caroline Lima , Everett Patterson , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We study the system of two localized detectors (oscillators) interacting through a massless quantum field in a vacuum state via an Unruh-DeWitt coupling. This system admits an exact solution providing a good model for addressing fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Theodora Kolioni , Charis Anastopoulos

The impact of measurement imperfections on quantum metrology protocols has not been approached in a systematic manner so far. In this work, we tackle this issue by generalising firstly the notion of quantum Fisher information to account for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yink Loong Len , Tuvia Gefen , Alex Retzker , Jan Kołodyński

Noise affects the performance of quantum technologies, hence the importance of elaborating operative figures of merit that can capture its impact in exact terms. In quantum metrology, the introduction of the Fisher information measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Francesco Albarelli , Ilaria Gianani , Marco G. Genoni , Marco Barbieri

We develop a new framework to optimize and understand uncertainty from in situ strong field measurements of laser field parameters. We present the first derivation of quantum and classical Fisher information for an electron undergoing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 A. S. Maxwell , A. Serafini , S. Bose , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

Quantum Fisher information characterizes the phase sensitivity of qubits in the spin-boson model with a finite bandwidth spectrum. In contrast with Markovian reservoirs, the quantum Fisher information will flow from the environments to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Hao , Ninghua Tong , Shiqun Zhu

In the present paper, Unruh--DeWitt detectors are used in order to investigate the issue of temperature associated with a spherically symmetric dynamical space-times. Firstly, we review the semi-classical tunneling method, then we introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , M. Tolotti , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

We investigate relativistic effects on the performance of a quantum battery in an open quantum framework. We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector driven by a coherent classical pulse as a quantum battery that is interacting with a massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar

We address multi-parameter quantum estimation for one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks and its applications to quantum metrology. We use the quantum walker as a probe for unknown parameters encoded on its coin degrees of freedom. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Mostafa Annabestani , Majid Hassani , Dario Tamascelli , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum entanglement as the one of the most general quantum resources, can be quantified by von Neumann entropy. However, as we know, the von Neumann entropy is only statistical quantity or operator, it therefore has fluctuation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sixuan Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

We study the dynamics of steering between two correlated Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them locally interacts with external scalar field via different quantifiers. We find that the quantum steering, either measured by the entropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Tonghua Liu , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

In this paper, our prime objective is to apply the techniques of parameter estimation theory and the concept of Quantum Metrology in the form of Fisher Information to investigate the role of certain physical quantities in the open quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-30 Sayantan Choudhury , Satyaki Chowdhury , Nitin Gupta , Abinash Swain

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we draw a connection between localized quantum field theories and more commonly used models of local probes in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI). By integrating over and then tracing out the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Bruno de S. L. Torres

In this paper we analyze an exactly solvable model consisting of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector which interacts linearly with a massless quantum field in Minkowski spacetime with a perfectly reflecting flat plane boundary. Firstly a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rong Zhou , Ryan O. Behunin , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu