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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…

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We study two quantum mechanical systems on the noncommutative plane using a representation independent approach. First, in the context of the Landau problem, we obtain an explicit expression for the gauge transformation that connects the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Nicolas Nessi , Lucas Sourrouille

We investigate the interaction between a moving detector and a quantum field, especially about how the trajectory of the detector would affect the vacuum fluctuations when the detector is moves in a quantum field (the Unruh effect). We…

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We study the role that both vacuum fluctuations and vacuum entanglement of a scalar field play in identifying the spacetime topology, which is not prescribed from first principles---neither in general relativity or quantum gravity. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Alexander R. H. Smith , Daniel R. Terno

We investigate the correlation harvesting protocol using two Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors moving along four classes of uniformly accelerated trajectories categorized by Letaw: linear, catenary, cusped, and circular motions. For each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Lana Bozanic , Manar Naeem , Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann

We show that the unitary evolution of a harmonic oscillator coupled to a two-level system can be undone by a suitable manipulation of the two-level system -- more specifically: by a quasi-instantaneous phase change. This enables us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Giovanna Morigi , Enrique Solano , Berthold-Georg Englert , Herbert Walther

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

Usually duality process keeps energy spectrum invariant. In this paper, we provide a duality, which keeps entanglement spectrum invariant, in order to diagnose quantum entanglement of non-Hermitian non-interacting fermionic systems. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Li-Mei Chen , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

We analyse the excitations and de-excitations of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector in the $(1+1)$-dimensional expanding Milne cosmology with compact spatial sections, coupled to a real massless scalar field with either untwisted or twisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Adam S. Wilkinson , Jorma Louko

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

We analyse the response function of an Unruh--DeWitt detector moving with time-dependent acceleration along a one-dimensional trajectory in Minkowski spacetime. To extract the physics of the process, we propose an adiabatic expansion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-26 Luis C. Barbado , Matt Visser

A system of a quantum harmonic oscillator bi-linearly coupled with a Glauber amplifier is analysed considering a time-dependent Hamiltonian model. The Hilbert space of this system may be exactly subdivided into invariant finite dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 R. Grimaudo , V. I. Man'ko , M. A. Man'ko , A. Messina

We introduce a family of entanglement witnesses for continuous variable systems, which rely on the sole assumption that their dynamics is that of coupled harmonic oscillators at the time of the test. Entanglement is inferred from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Pooja Jayachandran , Lin Htoo Zaw , Valerio Scarani

We present a closed-form analysis of second-order two-photon emission from a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector with a smooth Gaussian switch and derivative coupling. The time-ordered Dyson integrals are evaluated exactly, yielding…

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We derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix of a uniformly accelerating quantum detector in arbitrary dimensions, generically coupled to a field initially in its vacuum state, and analyze its late time regime. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Julio Arrechea , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

Quantum coherence in curved spacetime offers a fresh window into the interplay between gravity, thermality, and quantum resources. While previous work has shown that Markovian evolution can generate entanglement and other nonclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Samira Elghaayda , Atta ur Rahman , Mostafa Mansour

We describe the dynamics of a detector modeled by a harmonic oscillator coupled with an otherwise free quantum field in a curved spacetime in terms of covariant equations of motion leading to local observables. To achieve this, we derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Alejandro Blanco Sánchez , Luis J. Garay , Jose de Ramón

Applying the techniques of light-front quantization to quantize a scalar field in a monochromatic gravitational wave background, we manage to investigate the response of the Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a scalar field in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

We study the phenomenon of entanglement extraction from the vacuum of a massless scalar field in $(1+1)$ dimensional spacetime in presence of a moving Dirichlet boundary condition, i.e. mirror spacetime, using two inertial Unruh-DeWitt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Wan Cong , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We investigate the effects of relative motion on entanglement harvesting by considering a pair of Unruh-Dewitt detectors moving at arbitrary, but independent and constant velocities, both linearly interacting with the vacuum scalar field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Cendikiawan Suryaatmadja , Wan Cong , Robert . B. Mann
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