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In many states of the quantum electromagnetic field, including the vacuum state, entanglement exists between different space-time regions -- even space-like separated ones. These correlations can be harvested and, thereby, detected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Frieder Lindel , Alexa Herter , Valentin Gebhart , Jérôme Faist , Stefan Y. Buhmann

The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

Recently, interest has been growing in studies on discrete or "pixelated" space-time that, through modifications in the dispersion relation, can treat the vacuum as a dispersive medium. Discrete spacetime considers that spacetime has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Pedro H. M. Barros , Helder A. S. Costa

We revisit the Unruh effect within a general framework based on direct, probability-level calculations. We rederive the transition rate of a uniformly accelerating Unruh-DeWitt monopole detector coupled to a massive scalar field, from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We review some classic works on ground state entanglement entropy in $(1+1)$-dimensional free scalar field theory. We point out identifications between the methods for the calculation of entanglement entropy and we show how the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime. We first obtain a regulator-free expression for the transition probability in an arbitrary Hadamard state, working within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

We study the time-dependence of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one at rest in a Minkowski frame, the other non-uniformly accelerated in some specified way. The two detectors each couple to a scalar quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 David C. M. Ostapchuk , Shih-Yuin Lin , Robert B. Mann , B. L. Hu

The radiation pressure of two detuned laser beams can create a stable trap for a suspended cavity mirror; here it is shown that such a configuration entangles the output light fields via interaction with the mirror. Intra-cavity, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Wipf , Thomas Corbitt , Yanbei Chen , Nergis Mavalvala

The equivalence principle is a perennial subject of controversy, especially in connection with radiation by a uniformly accelerated classical charge, or a freely falling charge observed by a supported detector. Recently, related issues have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 S. A. Fulling , J. H. Wilson

We initiate an investigation into features of vacuum entanglement as probed by accelerated quantum probes in curved spacetime. Focussing specifically on de Sitter (dS) spacetime with curvature $\Lambda$, we obtain several exact results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mayank , K. Hari , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala

We demonstrate that the future and left Rindler wedges of Minkowski spacetime are entangled, leading to the Unruh effect. Similarly, the past and right Rindler wedges are also entangled. We propose a protocol to extract this entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Pravin Kumar Dahal , Kieran Hymas

We study radiative processes of two qubits coupled to a massless scalar field prepared in the Minkowski vacuum state. The analyze the effects of vacuum fluctuations in the generation of qubits' entangled states is performed. We assume one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 F. Sobrero , M. S. Soares , N. F. Svaiter

We demonstrate that the quantum vacuum, as perceived by a uniformly accelerating observer, can be harnessed to perform a quantum Z-gate. A two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector, prepared in a superposition of its ground and excited states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Arash Azizi

We discuss an effect of accelerated mirrors which remained hitherto unnoticed, the formation of a field condensate near its surface for massive fields. From the view point of an observer attached to the mirror, this is effect is rather…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alberto Saa , Marcelo Schiffer

The physical phenomena seen by an observer are defined for a local inertial system that is subjective to the observer. Such a coordinate system is called a ``moving frame'' because it changes from time to time. However, unlike the Thomas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Tomohiro Matsuda

Quantum contextuality is the notion that certain measurement scenarios do not admit a global description of their statistics and has been implicated as the source of quantum advantage in a number of quantum information protocols. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Philip A. LeMaitre

Entanglement degradation appears to be a generic prediction in relativistic quantum information whenever horizons restrict access to a region of spacetime. This property has been previously explored in connection with the Unruh effect,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 H. E. Camblong , A. Chakraborty , P. Lopez-Duque , C. R. Ordóñez

In a flat spacetime with one spatial dimension compactified, inertial reference frames are not all equivalent, but there are the preferred ones. This paper investigates the nonequivalence of inertial frames and also that of uniformly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Dah-Wei Chiou

We consider the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector near an extremal charged black hole, modeling the near-horizon region of this extremal spacetime by the Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. The advantage of employing the Bertotti-Robinson limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Aindriú Conroy , Peter Taylor