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We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime, within first-order perturbation theory. We first obtain a causal and manifestly regular expression for the instantaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

An object moving with the acceleration will change the temperature of environment around it, because of the presence of the Unruh thermal effect. In this work, we investigate the impact of Unruh thermal noise on the quantum-memory-assisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu-Kun Zhang , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

A physical system is in local equilibrium if it cannot be distinguished from a global equilibrium by ``infinitesimally localized measurements''. This should be a natural characterization of local equilibrium, but the problem is to give a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hermann Hessling

We consider blocks of quantum spins in a chain at thermal equilibrium, focusing on their properties from a thermodynamical perspective. Whereas in classical systems the temperature behaves as an intensive magnitude, a deviation from this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Garcia-Saez , A. Ferraro , A. Acin

In this work we suggest a sufficiently simple for understanding "without knowing the details of the quantum gravity" and quite correct deduction of the Unruh temperature (but not whole Unruh radiation process!). Firstly, we shall directly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-06 Vladan Pankovic , Darko Kapor

Quantum thermometry leveraging quantum sensors is investigated with an emphasis on fundamental precision bounds derived from quantum estimation theory. The proposed sensing platform consists of two dissimilar qubits coupled via capacitor,…

Estimating the temperature of a cold quantum system is difficult. Usually, one measures a well-understood thermal state and uses that prior knowledge to infer its temperature. In contrast, we introduce a method of thermometry that assumes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 T. H. Johnson , F. Cosco , M. T. Mitchison , D. Jaksch , S. R. Clark

We analyse the response and thermal behaviour of an Unruh-DeWitt detector as it travels through cosmological spacetimes, with special reference to the question of how to define surface gravity and temperature in dynamical spacetimes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Aindriú Conroy

Local temperature defined by a local canonical state of the respective subsystem, does not always exist in quantum many body systems. Here, we give some examples of how this breakdown of the temperature concept on small length scales might…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Hartmann , Guenther Mahler

We introduce thermometers to define the local temperature of an electronic system driven out-of-equilibrium by local ac fields. We discuss the behavior of the local temperature along the sample, showing that it exhibits spatial fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Alvaro Caso , Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano

We study the detailed balance temperatures recorded along all classes of stationary, uniformly accelerated worldlines in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, namely along (i) linear uniform acceleration, (ii) cusped, (iii) circular, (iv)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Michael Good , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Dimitris Moustos , Maksat Temirkhan

A measurement-based quantum computer could consist of a local-gapped Hamiltonian system, whose thermal states --at sufficiently low temperature-- are universal resources for the computation. Initialization of the computer would correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. H. Aguilar , T. Kolb , D. Cavalcanti , L. Aolita , R. Chaves , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

We revisit the problem of the thermalization process in an entropic formulation for the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector outside a Schwarzschild black hole. We derive the late-time dynamics of the detector in the context of open quantum system,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Si-Wei Han , Zhichun Ouyang , Zhiyao Hu , Jun Feng

We revisit the thermal nature of the Unruh effect within a quantum thermodynamic framework. For a Unruh-deWitt (UDW) detector in $n$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, we demonstrate that its irreversible thermalization to a Gibbs equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Zihao Wang , Wenjing Chen , Si-Wei Han , Xiaoshan Feng , Linmu Qiao , Zhichun Ouyang , Jun Feng

Thermodynamics relies on the possibility to describe systems composed of a large number of constituents in terms of few macroscopic variables. Its foundations are rooted into the paradigm of statistical mechanics, where thermal properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Antonella De Pasquale , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

We address the problem of the thermalization process for an Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector outside a BTZ black hole, from a perspective of quantum thermodynamics. In the context of an open quantum system, we derive the complete dynamics of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Wenjing Chen , Yixuan Ma , Si-Wei Han , Zihao Wang , Jun Feng

It is shown that the Unruh effect, i.e. the increase in temperature indicated by a uniformly accelerated thermometer in an inertial vacuum state of a quantum field, cannot be interpreted as the result of an exchange of heat with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Detlev Buchholz , Rainer Verch

We investigate the interplay between quantum thermodynamics, quantum correlations, and quantum coherence within the framework of the Unruh-DeWitt (UdW) detector model. By analyzing both the steady and dynamical states of various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Omar Bachain , Mohamed Amazioug , Rachid Ahl Laamara

Recently, we proposed a method for the local detection of quantum correlations on the basis of local measurements and state tomography at different instances in time [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180402 (2011)]. The method allows for the detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Manuel Gessner , Heinz-Peter Breuer

In this paper we describe two approaches that allow to calculate some thermal features as perceived by different observers in curved spacetimes: the tunnelling method and the Unruh-DeWitt detector. The tunnelling phenomenon is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-16 Giovanni Acquaviva