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Quantum thermometry refers to the study of measuring ultra-low temperatures in quantum systems. The precision of such a quantum thermometer is limited by the degree to which temperature can be estimated by quantum measurements. More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sebastian Deffner

We investigate the Minkowski ground state associated with a real massless scalar field as seen by an accelerated observer under the perspective of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory. We use the Schr\"odinger picture to obtain the wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Matheus M. A. Paixão , Olesya Galkina , Nelson Pinto-Neto

Temperature estimation, known as thermometry, is a critical sensing task for physical systems operating in the quantum regime. Indeed, thermal fluctuations can significantly degrade quantum coherence. Therefore, accurately determining the…

Quantum thermalization describes how closed quantum systems can effectively reach thermal equilibrium, resolving the apparent incongruity between the reversibility of Schr\"odinger's equation and the second law of thermodynamics. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo , Soonwon Choi

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

Unruh effect states that the vacuum of a quantum field theory on Minkovski space-time looks like a thermal state for an eternal uniformly accelerated observer. Adaptation to the non eternal case causes a serious problem: if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Martinetti

We examine the entanglement of thermal states of n spins interacting through different types of XY couplings in the presence of a magnetic field, by evaluating the negativities of all possible bipartite partitions of the whole system and of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Rossignoli , N. Canosa

We compute the transition amplitudes between charged particles of mass $M$ and $m$ accelerated by a constant electric field and interacting by the exchange of quanta of a third field. We work in second quantization in order to take into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Cl. Gabriel , Ph. Spindel , S. Massar , R. Parentani

We give a general treatment of the spontaneous excitation rates and the non-relativistic Lamb shift of constantly accelerated multi-level atoms as a model for multi-level detectors. Using a covariant formulation of the dipole coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Karl-Peter Marzlin , J"urgen Audretsch

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

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

We have discovered an interaction between two detectors in a vacuum that emerges exclusively due to acceleration, akin to the spontaneous excitation of a single detector as predicted by the Fulling-Davies-Unruh (FDU) effect. However, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-30 Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu

We will present a method for building a consistent AQFT on Schwarzschild spacetime for a thermal system ruled by an interacting and massive scalar field, extending the methods and the results of K. Fredenhagen and F. Lindner valid for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Samuel Rutili

We give a simple argument to derive the transformation of quantum stochastic calculus formalism between inertial observers, and derive the quantum open system dynamics for a system moving in a vacuum (more generally coherent) quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 J. E. Gough

On a quantum superconducting processor we observe partial and infinite-temperature thermalization induced by a sequence of repeated quantum projective measurements, interspersed by a unitary (Hamiltonian) evolution. Specifically, on a qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Alessandro Santini , Andrea Solfanelli , Stefano Gherardini , Guido Giachetti

We study, in the framework of open systems, the entanglement generation of two independent uniformly accelerated atoms in interaction with the vacuum fluctuations of massless scalar fields subjected to a reflecting plane boundary. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

In this contribution we describe some interesting interplay between quantum theory, general relativity and thermodynamics. In order to highlight the connection between these theories, we describe two approaches that allow to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-28 Giovanni Acquaviva

In analyzing the nature of thermal radiance experienced by an accelerated observer (Unruh effect), an eternal black hole (Hawking effect) and in certain types of cosmological expansion, one of us proposed a unifying viewpoint that these can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alpan Raval , B. L. Hu , Don Koks

Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting locally with a quantum field are systems under consideration for relativistic quantum information processing. In most works, the detectors are assumed to be point-like and, therefore, couple with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

A quantum system $\s$ interacts in a successive way with elements $\ee$ of a chain of identical independent quantum subsystems. Each interaction lasts for a duration $\tau$ and is governed by a fixed coupling between $\s$ and $\ee$. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Bruneau , Alain Joye , Marco Merkli