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We study the radiative process of two entangled two-level atoms uniformly accelerated in a thermal bath, coupled to a massless scalar field. First, using the positive frequency Wightman function from the Minkowski modes with a Rindler…

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How long does a uniformly accelerated observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to record thermality in the Unruh temperature? We address this question for a pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

In this note, the non-relativistic Doppler spectrum of the Unruh radiation from an accelerating mass is determined. Additionally, the scattering of thermal bath photons off an accelerating electron in an electromagnetic field, as seen by a…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Jeff S. Lee , Gerald B. Cleaver , Felix Yu

An approach based on a non-Markovian time-convolutionless polaron master equation is used to probe the quantum dynamics of a chromophore-qubit in a super-Ohmic bath. Utilizing a measure of non-Markovianity based on dynamical fixed points,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-21 Jing Liu , Kewei Sun , Xiaoguang Wang , Yang Zhao

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

We investigate the dynamics of ergotropy in open systems under Markovian and non-Markovian evolutions. In this scenario, we begin by formulating the ergotropy of an arbitrary qubit state in terms of energy and coherence. Thus, we determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca , P. A. C. Obando , F. M. de Paula , M. S. Sarandy

In this work, we present a new framework for a relativistic quantum analouge of the classical Otto engine. Considering a single qubit as the working substance, we analyse its interaction with a massless quantum scalar field while undergoing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Rudra Prosad Sarkar , Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

In recent work by M.H.Lynch, E.Cohen, Y.Hadad and I.Kaminer (LCHK), a modified model of the Unruh-DeWitt quantum detector, coupled to a 4-vector current, has been proposed to examine the radiation emitted by high energy positrons channeled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-20 Yefim S. Levin

The Unruh effect is essential to keep the consistency of quantum field theory in inertial and uniformly accelerated frames. Thus, the Unruh effect must be considered as well tested as quantum field theory itself. In spite of it, it would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Gabriel Cozzella , Andre G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

The non-Markovia dynamics of quantum evolution plays an important role in open quantum sytem. However, how to quantify non-Markovian behavior and what can be obtained from non- Markovianity are still open questions, especially in complex…

Despite numerous proposals investigating various properties of accelerated detectors in different settings, detecting the Unruh effect remains challenging due to the typically weak signal at achievable accelerations. For an atom with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Navdeep Arya , D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan , Sandeep K. Goyal

To control and utilize quantum features in small scale for practical applications such as quantum transport, it is crucial to gain deep understanding of quantum characteristics of states such as coherence. Here by introducing a technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Laleh Memarzadeh , Azam Mani

A complete treatment of the entanglement of two-level systems, which evolves through the contact with a thermal bath, must include the fact that the system and the bath are not fully separable. Therefore, quantum coherent superpositions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Arend G. Dijkstra , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We discuss different physical effects related to the uniform acceleration of atoms in vacuum, in the framework of quantum electrodynamics. We first investigate the van der Waals/Casimir-Polder dispersion and resonance interactions between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 M. Lattuca , J. Marino , A. Noto , R. Passante , L. Rizzuto , S. Spagnolo , W. Zhou

We study the temporal evolution of entanglement pertaining to two qubits interacting with a thermal bath. In particular we consider the simplest nontrivial spin bath models where symmetry breaking occurs and treat them by mean field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Lucamarini , Simone Paganelli , Stefano Mancini

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 show that Casimir-Polder forces between two relativistic uniformly accelerated atoms exhibit a transition from the short distance thermal-like behavior predicted by the Unruh effect, to a long distance non-thermal behavior, associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 J. Marino , A. Noto , R. Passante

We utilize a superconducting qubit processor to experimentally probe non-Markovian dynamics of an entangled qubit pair. We prepare an entangled state between two qubits and monitor the evolution of entanglement over time as one of the…

The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Andre G. S. Landulfo , Stephen A. Fulling , George E. A. Matsas

We compute the corrections to the transition amplitudes of an accelerated Unruh ``box'' that arise when the accelerated box is replaced by a ``two level ion'' immersed in a constant electric field and treated in second quantization. There…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Parentani , S. Massar