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We present a quantum-optical platform for simulating relativistic detector-field interactions using entangled nonlinear biphoton sources (ENBSs), realized through phase-controlled single-photon frequency-comb (SPFC) sources. By mapping the…

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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 study the locality of the acceleration temperature in the Unruh effect. To this end, we develop a new formalism for the modeling of macroscopic irreversible detectors. In particular, the formalism allows for the derivation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

In this contribution we describe some interesting interplay between quantum theory, general relativity and thermodynamics. In order to highlight the connection between these theories, we describe two approaches that allow to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-28 Giovanni Acquaviva

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

In this paper we analyze an exactly solvable model consisting of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector which interacts linearly with a massless quantum field in Minkowski spacetime with a perfectly reflecting flat plane boundary. Firstly a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rong Zhou , Ryan O. Behunin , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

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 study the effects of motion for an Unruh-DeWitt detector, modeled as a two-level system, on the amount of coherence extracted, when it interacts with a massless scalar coherent field in 1+1 Minkowski spacetime. We observe that compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos , Kostas Blekos

In this work, considering the background dynamics of flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker(FLRW) model of the universe, we investigate a scalar field model as dark energy candidate which interacting with the pressure-less dust as dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Goutam Mandal , Soumya Chakraborty , Sudip Mishra , Sujay Kr. Biswas

Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a bifurcating Killing horizon. Such an effect can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Levy B. N. Batista , André G. S. Landulfo , Robert B. Mann , George E. A. Matsas

We study the system of two localized detectors (oscillators) interacting through a massless quantum field in a vacuum state via an Unruh-DeWitt coupling. This system admits an exact solution providing a good model for addressing fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Theodora Kolioni , Charis Anastopoulos

We introduce a method to compute particle detector transition probability in spacetime regions of general curved spacetimes provided that the curvature is not above a maximum threshold. In particular we use this method to compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Aida Ahmadzadegan , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Robert B. Mann

We calculate the response functions of a freely falling Unruh detector in de Sitter space coupled to scalar fields of different coupling to the curvature, including the minimally coupled massless case. Although the responses differ strongly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

We study the measurements of a freely falling Unruh-DeWitt particle detector near the horizon of a semiclassical Schwarzschild black hole. Our results show that the detector's response increases smoothly as it approaches and crosses the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Christopher J. Shallue , Sean M. Carroll

In this paper, we extend the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) model to include a relativistic quantized center of mass (c.m.) for the detector, which traditionally has a classical c.m. and follows a classical trajectory. We develop a relativistic model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Evan P. G. Gale , Magdalena Zych

We consider the transition rate of a static Unruh-DeWitt detector in two $(2+1)$-dimensional black hole spacetimes that are isometric to the static Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole outside the horizon but have no asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Dyuman Bhattacharya , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann

The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

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

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

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