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We derive the effective equations for the out of equilibrium time evolution of the order parameter and the fluctuations of a scalar field theory in spatially flat FRW cosmologies.The calculation is performed both to one-loop and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman

In this work, we study quantum evolution of an open moving-qubit modulated by a classical driving field. We obtain the density operator of qubit at zero temperature and analyze its quantum evolution dynamics by using quantum speed limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Qilin Wang , Jianhe Yang , Rongfang Liu , Hong-Mei Zou , Ali Mortezapour , Dan Long , Jia Wang , Qianqian Ma

This paper extends the study of the quantum dissipative effects of a cosmological scalar field by taking into account the cosmic expansion and contraction. Cheung, Drewes, Kang and Kim calculated the effective action and quantum dissipative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-18 Hui Xu , Lei Ming , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Using nonperturbative results obtained recently for an uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector, we discover new features in the dynamical evolution of the detector's internal degree of freedom, and identified the Unruh effect derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

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 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

We treat an Unruh-DeWitt detector as an open quantum system and evaluate the response of a uniformly accelerated detector: (i) interacting locally with the derivatives of a massless scalar field and (ii) linearly coupled to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Dimitris Moustos

In this work, we investigate the interaction between a uniformly accelerated single qubit and a fermionic spinor field. Here we consider both the massless and the massive fermionic spinor fields. The qubit-field interaction occurs over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , P. H. M. Barros , H. A. S. Costa

Reliable processing of quantum information for developing quantum technologies requires precise control of out-of-equilibrium many-bodysystems. This is a highly challenging task as the fragility of quantum states to external perturbations…

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

Exponential quintessence models motivated by string compactifications naturally involve both a dilatonic scalar and its axionic partner evolving on a curved field space, while spatial curvature enlarges the cosmological phase space and may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Diego Gallego , J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana

Vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields provide an unavoidable environment for any quantum system coupled to it. We study the interplay between boundary conditions and acceleration in determining decoherence of a two-level Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Shagun Kaushal , Kinjalk Lochan

We compute the rate with which unobserved fields decohere other fields to which they couple, both in flat space and in de Sitter space, for spectator scalar fields prepared in their standard adiabatic vacuum. The process is very efficient…

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We describe scalar-bimetric theories where the dynamics of the Universe are governed by two separate metrics, each with an Einstein-Hilbert term. In this setting, the baryonic and dark matter components of the Universe couple to metrics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

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

We develop a localized particle detector model formulated as a massive quantum field on Minkowski spacetime with the spatial origin excised. To render the problem well-posed at the puncture, we impose boundary conditions at the excised…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Victor Hugo M. Ramos , João Paulo M. Pitelli , João C. A. Barata

In this paper, we employ the quantum regression theorem, a powerful tool in the study of open quantum systems, to analytically study the correlation functions of an Unruh-DeWitt detector, which is an uniformly accelerated two-level quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Manjari Dutta , Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

In this paper we calculate the effect of acceleration on the decay and excitation rates of scalar fields into a final state of arbitrary multiplicity. The analysis is carried out using standard field operators as well as an Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Morgan H. Lynch

We investigate a two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field or its proper time derivative in $(1+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in a quantum state whose correlation structure across the Rindler horizon mimics…

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