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Thermal phenomena in quantum field theory can be detected with the aid of particle detectors coupled to quantum fields along stationary worldlines, by testing whether the response of such a detector satisfies the detailed balance version of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

Entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is a well-known fact that, in recent times, is being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually understood formulation studies the possibility of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In this work, we propose to investigate the information behavior of quantum systems through accelerated detectors quadratically coupled with a massless scalar field. In addition, we made detailed comparisons with the case of linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 P. H. M. Barros , P. R. S. Carvalho , H. A. S. Costa

A computational scheme is developed to determine the response of a quantum field theory (QFT) with a factorized scattering operator under a variation of the Unruh temperature. To this end a new family of integrable systems is introduced,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Niedermaier

We put forward a physical model of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and use quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect in a high dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By means of the open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Yan Chen , Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Xiang Hao

Quantum properties of the probes used to estimate a classical parameter can be used to attain accuracies that beat the standard quantum limit. When qubits are used to construct a quantum probe, it is known that initializing $n$ qubits in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anil Shaji , Carlton M. Caves

We study the dynamics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes whose metric is characterised by a single metric function $f(r)$. In order to obtain clean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

A detector undergoing a huge acceleration measures a thermal distribution with the Unruh temperature out of the Minkowski vacuum. Though such huge accelerations occur naturally in astrophysics and gravity, one may design untraintense laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-08 Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

In this paper, we analyse the quantum coherence behaviors of a single qubit in the relativistic regime beyond the single-mode approximation. Firstly, we investigate the freezing condition of quantum coherence in fermionic system. We also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zhiming Huang , Haozhen Situ , Cai Zhang

The goal of quantum metrology is to improve measurements' sensitivities by harnessing quantum resources. Metrologists often aim to maximize the quantum Fisher information, which bounds the measurement setup's sensitivity. In studies of…

Gaussian quantum probes have been widely used in quantum metrology and thermometry, where the goal is to estimate the temperature of an environment with which the probe interacts. It was recently shown that introducing initial…

The uncertainty principle sets a bound on our ability to predict the measurement outcomes of two incompatible observables which are measured on a quantum particle simultaneously. In quantum information theory, the uncertainty principle can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 H. Dolatkhah , S. Haseli , S. Salimi , A. s. Khorashad

Based on a discussion of the concepts of temperature, passivity and efficiency in the framework of quantum field theory, the physical interpretation of the Unruh effect is reviewed PACS: 03.70.+k, 04.70.Dy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Detlev Buchholz , Christoph Solveen

The initial entanglement shared between inertial and accelerated observers degrades due to the influence of the Unruh effect. Here, we show that the Unruh effect can be completely eliminated by the technique of partial measurement. The lost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xing Xiao , Ying-Mao Xie , Yao Yao , Yan-Ling Li , Jieci Wang

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

By globally embedding curved spaces into higher dimensional flat ones, we show that Hawking thermal properties map into their Unruh equivalents: The relevant curved space detectors become Rindler ones, whose temperature and entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Orit Levin

In this work, we investigate the properties of Hawking radiation induced by the quantum atmosphere beyond the event horizon, by considering two detectors in Schwarzschild spacetime with the parameterized Hartle-Hawking temperature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-16 Shuai Zhang , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We show through the Choi matrix approach that the effect of Unruh acceleration on a qubit is similar to the interaction of the qubit with a vacuum bath, despite the finiteness of the Unruh temperature. Thus, rather counterintuitvely, from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Subhashish Banerjee , Ashutosh Kumar Alok , S. Omkar , R. Srikanth

The Hawking-Unruh effect of thermal radiance from a black hole or observed by an accelerated detector is usually viewed as a geometric effect related to the existence of an event horizon. Here we propose a new viewpoint, that the detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu

It is shown how the technique of restricted path integrals (RPI) or quantum corridors (QC) may be applied for the analysis of relativistic measurements. Then this technique is used to clarify the physical nature of thermal effects as seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael B. Mensky