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Cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) plays an elegant role of studying strong coupling between light and matter. However, a non-mechanical, direct and dynamical control of the used mirrors is still unavailable. Here we theoretically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-31 Shih-Wei Su , Zhen-Kai Lu , Nina Rohringer , Shih-Chuan Gou , Wen-Te Liao

The Davies-Fulling (DF) model describes the scattering of a massless field by a non-inertial mirror in two dimensions. In this paper, we generalize this model in two different ways. First, we consider partially reflecting mirrors. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Obadia , R. Parentani

A detailed theoretical investigation of the reflection of an atomic de Broglie wave at an evanescent wave mirror is presented. The classical and the semiclassical descriptions of the reflection process are reviewed, and a full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Henkel , J. -Y. Courtois , R. Kaiser , C. Westbrook , A. Aspect

An accelerating boundary (mirror) acts as a horizon and black hole analog, radiating energy with some particle spectrum. We demonstrate that a M\"obius transformation on the null coordinate advanced time mirror trajectory uniquely keeps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-28 Michael R. R. Good , Eric V. Linder

We propose a scheme for creating quantum superposition states involving of order $10^{14}$ atoms via the interaction of a single photon with a tiny mirror. This mirror, mounted on a high-quality mechanical oscillator, is part of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 William Marshall , Christoph Simon , Roger Penrose , Dik Bouwmeester

A black mirror is an accelerated boundary that produces particles in an exact correspondence to an evaporating black hole. We investigate the spectral dynamics of the particle creation during the formation process.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-27 Michael R. R. Good

The focusing of the vacuum modes of a quantized field by a parabolic mirror is investigated. We use a geometric optics approximation to calculate the energy density and mean squared field averages for scalar and electromagnetic fields near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. H. Ford , N. F. Svaiter

Quantum trajectory theory is the best mathematical set up to model continual observations of a quantum system and feedback based on the observed output. Inside this framework, we study how to enhance the squeezing of the fluorescence light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 A. Barchielli , M. gregoratti , M. Licciardo

A two-body quantum correlation is calculated for a particle reflecting from a moving mirror. Correlated interference results when the incident and reflected particle substates and their associated mirror substates overlap. Using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 F. V. Kowalski , R. S. Browne

We investigate a hybrid optomechanical system comprised of a mechanical oscillator and an atomic 3-level ensemble within an optical cavity. We show that a suitably tailored cavity field response via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Claudiu Genes , Helmut Ritsch , Michael Drewsen , Aurélien Dantan

We study the quantum limits in an optomechanical sensor based on a detuned high-finesse cavity with a movable mirror. We show that the radiation pressure exerted on the mirror by the light in the detuned cavity induces a modification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier Arcizet , Tristan Briant , Antoine Heidmann , Michel Pinard

We construct the invisible quantum barrier which represents the phenomenon of quantum reflection using the available data. We use the Abel equation to invert the data. The resulting invisible quantum barrier is double-valued in both axes.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. X. de Carvalho , M. S. Hussein , Weibin Li

According to quantum mechanics, if we keep observing a continuous variable we generally disturb its evolution. For a class of observables, however, it is possible to implement a so-called quantum nondemolition measurement: by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , L. Marconi , F. Marino , G. Pandraud , G. A. Prodi , P. M. Sarro , E. Serra , F. Marin

This note discusses a method for computing the energy spectra of quantum field theory utilizing digital quantum simulation. A quantum algorithm, called coherent imaging spectroscopy, quenches the vacuum with a time-oscillating perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-24 Dongwook Ghim , Masazumi Honda

We introduce a new model of relativistic quantum analogue of the classical Otto engine in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary. A single qubit acts as the working substance interacting with a massless quantum scalar field, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar

We present a quantum optics treatment of the near horizon behaviour of a quantum oscillator freely-falling into a pre-existing Schwarzschild black hole. We use Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates to define a global vacuum state. In contrast to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Derek J. Raine , Paul G. Abel

The idealized theory of quantum vacuum energy density is a beautiful application of the spectral theory of differential operators with boundary conditions, but its conclusions are physically unacceptable. A more plausible model of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 J. D. Bouas , S. A. Fulling , F. D. Mera , K. Thapa , C. S. Trendafilova , J. Wagner

This article investigates the possibility that Hawking-like quanta emitted by a moving mirror can be purified by late-time vacuum fluctuations, as proposed in Ref. [1]. Our motivation originates from recent discussions in Refs. [2,3] on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Ivan Agullo , Paula Calizaya Cabrera , Beatriz Elizaga Navascués

We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma