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We study Unruh effect for a wide class of non local theories. Using the approach of Bogoliubov coefficents we show that Unruh effect remains entirely unmodified in these theories. However, for those non local theories which incorporate a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Nirmalya Kajuri

We obtain direct, finite, descriptions of a renormalized quantum mechanical system with no reference to ultraviolet cutoffs and running coupling constants, in both the Hamiltonian and path integral pictures. The path integral description…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Henderson , S. G. Rajeev

We formulate Feynman path integral on a non commutative plane using coherent states. The propagator for a free particle exhibits UV cut-off induced by the parameter of non commutativity.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Anais Smailagic , Euro Spallucci

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

The Unruh effect is the phenomenon that accelerated observers detect particles even when inertial observers experience the vacuum state. In particular, uniformly accelerated observers are predicted to measure thermal radiation that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Luis C. Barbado , Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Luca Apadula , Časlav Brukner

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

We develop a general formalism for a non-perturbative treatment of harmonic-oscillator particle detectors in relativistic quantum field theory using continuous-variables techniques. By means of this we forgo perturbation theory altogether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Eric G. Brown , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Robert B. Mann

We study an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector that is coupled to the proper time derivative of a real scalar field in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. Working within first-order perturbation theory, we cast the transition probability into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

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 investigate the formulation of work distributions for quantum scalar fields in static curved spacetimes by extending the Ramsey interferometric protocol originally developed in previous works for flat spacetimes. The use of Unruh-DeWitt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Rafael L. S. Costa , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero , Lucas C. Céleri

We study the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

We present a duality between a particle detector model coupled to the amplitude of a scalar field and coupled to the field's derivative in the limit of large energy gaps. We show that the results of the models can be mapped to each other in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 T. Rick Perche , Matheus H. Zambianco

In this paper we provide the DeWitt propagator and its wave function in quantum cosmology using the path integral formulation of quantum gravity. The DeWitt boundary condition is introduced as a way to avoid the Big Bang singularity by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Hiroki Matsui

The Born rule describes the probability of obtaining an outcome when measuring an observable of a quantum system. As it can only be tested by measuring many copies of the system under consideration, it does not hold for non-replicable…

The quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is central to multiparameter quantum metrology, dictating the attainable sensitivity via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we investigate the ultimate precision limits for…

It is often remarked in the literature that particles in QFT on curved spacetime are akin to coordinates in general relativity and hence are physically meaningless. This moral is given an explicit demonstration by giving the correspondence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Alex Venditti , Charles Dyer

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

The essence of the path integral method in quantum physics can be expressed in terms of two relations between unitary propagators, describing perturbations of the underlying system. They inherit the causal structure of the theory and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Detlev Buchholz , Klaus Fredenhagen

We analyze correlations between pairs of particle detectors quadratically coupled to a real scalar field. We find that, while a single quadratically coupled detector presents no divergences, when one considers pairs of detectors there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Allison Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We use path integrals to calculate perturbative corrections to the correlation function of a particle under the action of nonlinear optical tweezers, both in the overdamped and underdamped regimes. In both cases, it is found that to leading…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Bruno Suassuna , Bruno Melo , Thiago Guerreiro