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In this study, we investigate a pair of detectors operating in Minkowski space-time and analyze the characteristics of various quantum resources within this framework. Specifically, we focus on examining the properties of Bell nonlocality,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Yu-Kun Zhang , Tariq Aziz , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We show that, assuming that quantum mechanics holds locally, the finite speed of information is the principle that limits all possible correlations between distant parties to be quantum mechanical as well. Local quantum mechanics means that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 H. Barnum , S. Beigi , S. Boixo , M. B. Elliott , S. Wehner

A quantum system and a thermal bath can reach thermal equilibrium through an interaction, whereupon the system acquires the same temperature as the bath. But how does a delocalised quantum system thermalise with a bath whose local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Carolyn E. Wood , Harshit Verma , Fabio Costa , Magdalena Zych

How long does a uniformly rotating observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to register an approximately thermal response due to the circular motion Unruh effect? We address this question for a massless scalar field in 2+1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Leo J. A. Parry , Diego Vidal-Cruzprieto , Christopher J. Fewster , Jorma Louko

A long-standing debate on Gibbons-Hawking (GH) decoherence centers on its unclear thermal nature. In this work, we investigate the robustness of quantum Fisher information (QFI) and local quantum uncertainty (LQU) in the presence of GH…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Samira Elghaayda , Asad Ali , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Mostafa Mansour , Saif Al-Kuwari

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

A theoretical proposal that Coulomb-coupled quantum dots can be used as quantum probes to determine the temperature of a sample (i.e., an electronic reservoir) is proposed. Through the regulation of the positive or negative voltage bias in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yanchao Zhang , Jincan Chen

In thermal quantum field theory, the global Liouvillian (the generator of time translations) is passive. How is this reflected in the properties of its local density, a quantum field? We propose that the locally averaged density is bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Henning Bostelmann , Daniela Cadamuro , Leonardo Sangaletti

Thermal states are the bedrock of statistical physics. Nevertheless, when and how they actually arise in closed quantum systems is not fully understood. We consider this question for systems with local Hamiltonians on finite quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 Terry Farrelly , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Marcus Cramer

Thermometry is a fundamental parameter estimation problem which is crucial in the development process of natural sciences. One way to solve this problem is to the extensive used local thermometry theory, which makes use of the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

We illustrate the analogue of the Unruh effect for a quantum system on the real line. Our derivation relies solely on basic elements of representation theory of the group of affine transformations without a notion of time or metric. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-30 Michele Arzano , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman

We introduce a type of quantum dissipation -- local quantum friction -- by adding to the Hamiltonian a local potential that breaks time-reversal invariance so as to cool the system. Unlike the Kossakowski-Lindblad master equation, local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Aurel Bulgac , Michael McNeil Forbes , Kenneth J. Roche , Gabriel Wlazłowski

Integrable models such as the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, the Lieb-Liniger or the one-dimensional Hubbard model are known to avoid thermalization, which was also demonstrated in several quantum-quench experiments. Another dramatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-28 C. Karrasch , T. Prosen , F. Heidrich-Meisner

The rapidly developing quantum technologies and thermodynamics have put forward a requirement to precisely control and measure the temperature of microscopic matter at the quantum level. Many quantum thermometry schemes have been proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Ning Zhang , Chong Chen , Si-Yuan Bai , Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

It has previously been suggested that small subsystems of closed quantum systems thermalize under some assumptions; however, this has been rigorously shown so far only for systems with very weak interaction between subsystems. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Markus P. Mueller , Emily Adlam , Lluis Masanes , Nathan Wiebe

We investigate the formulation of work distributions for quantum scalar fields in static curved spacetimes by extending the Ramsey interferometric protocol originally developed in previous works for flat spacetimes. The use of Unruh-DeWitt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Rafael L. S. Costa , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero , Lucas C. Céleri

We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., the free energy at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We study quantum impurity models as a platform for quantum thermometry. A single quantum spin-1/2 impurity is coupled to an explicit, structured, fermionic thermal environment which we refer to as the environment or bath. We critically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 George Mihailescu , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

We investigate the thermodynamic behavior of open quantum systems through the Hamiltonian of Mean Force, focusing on two models: a two-qubit system interacting with a thermal bath and a Jaynes-Cummings Model without the rotating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Neha Pathania , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

We study spectral properties and the dynamics after a quench of one-dimensional spinless fermions with short-range interactions and long-range random hopping. We show that a sufficiently fast decay of the hopping term promotes localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-24 Ehsan Khatami , Marcos Rigol , Armando Relaño , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia