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Recently there has been much effort in developing a quantum generalisation of reference frame transformations. Despite important progress, a complete understanding of their principles is still lacking. In particular, we argue that previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Ognyan Oreshkov

The physical phenomena seen by an observer are defined for a local inertial system that is subjective to the observer. Such a coordinate system is called a ``moving frame'' because it changes from time to time. However, unlike the Thomas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Tomohiro Matsuda

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we draw a connection between localized quantum field theories and more commonly used models of local probes in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI). By integrating over and then tracing out the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Bruno de S. L. Torres

Reference frames are of special importance in physics. They are usually considered to be idealized entities. However, in most situations, e.g. in laboratories, physical processes are described within reference frames constituted by physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Jan Tuziemski

It is commonly believed that the fidelity of quantum teleportation using localized quantum objects with one party or both accelerated in vacuum would be degraded due to the heat-up by the Unruh effect. In this paper we point out that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-12 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu

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

We study Unruh phenomena for a qudit detector coupled to a quantized scalar field, comparing its response to that of a standard qubit-based Unruh-DeWitt detector. We show that there are limitations to the utility of the detailed balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Caroline Lima , Everett Patterson , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We analyze potential violations of causality in Unruh DeWitt-type detector models in relativistic quantum information. We proceed by first studying the relation between faster-than-light signaling and the causal factorization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 José de Ramón , Maria Papageorgiou , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We obtained an exact solution for a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in (3+1) dimensions which enables us to study the entire evolution of the total system, from the initial transient to…

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

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

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

Under the principle that quantum mechanical observables are invariant under relevant symmetry transformations, we explore how the usual, non-invariant quantities may capture measurement statistics. Using a relativisation mapping, viewed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Leon Loveridge , Paul Busch , Takayuki Miyadera

We consider ionized hydrogen-like atoms accelerated by an external electric field to detect Unruh radiation. By applying quantum field theory in the Rindler spacetime, we show that the first-quantized description for hydrogen-like atoms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-24 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

Quantum correlations in the state of four-level atom are investigated by using generic unitary transforms of the classical (diagonal) density matrix. Partial cases of pure state, $X$-state, Werner state are studied in details. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 V. I. Man'ko , L. A. Markovich

Quantum reference frames provide a relational description of multipartite quantum systems in which physical states and observables are defined relative to quantum observers. Yet different observers can assign different entropies to the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Anne-Catherine de la Hamette

Doubly special relativity has been studied for the last twenty years as a way to go beyond the special relativistic kinematics, trying to capture residual effects of a quantum gravity theory. In particular, in doubly special relativity the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 J. J. Relancio

We show how the use of entanglement can enhance the precision of the detection of the Unruh effect with an accelerated probe. We use the Unruh-DeWitt model of a two-level atom interacting relativistically with a quantum field and treat the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing , Andrzej Dragan

There is increasing interest in discrete or "pixelated" spacetime models as a foundation for a satisfactory theory of quantum gravity. If spacetime possesses a cellular structure, there should be observable consequences: for example, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Paul C. W. Davies , Philip Tee

This thesis collects my own and collaborative work I have been involved with finding localised systems in quantum field theory that are useful for quantum information. It draws from many well established physical theories such as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-23 Antony Richard Lee