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We investigate the behavior of tetrapartite entanglement in a four-qubit Dicke state under relativistic motion by employing the Unruh-DeWitt detector model, where one detector undergoes uniform acceleration. We show that the entanglement…

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We consider a pair of two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors accelerated uniformly in the Minkowski vacuum of a massless neutral scalar field, and analyze, within the perturbation theory, the entanglement extracted from the vacuum into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jun-ichirou Koga , Kengo Maeda , Gen Kimura

We show under what conditions an accelerated detector (e.g., an atom/ion/molecule) thermalizes while interacting with the vacuum state of a quantum field in a setup where the detector's acceleration alternates sign across multiple optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Silas Vriend , Daniel Grimmer , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

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 analyze quantum parameter estimation by studying the dynamics of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for two classes of parameters, acceleration and initial-state weight, in an Unruh-DeWitt detector undergoing four distinct noninertial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Han Wang , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I-Chin Wang

Quantum measurements of physical quantities are usually described as ideal measurements. However, only a few measurements fulfil the conditions of ideal measurements. The aim of the present work is to describe real position measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Klaus Wick

A study of the spin 1 Unruh-De Witt detectors interacting with a relativistic scalar quantum field is presented. After tracing out the field modes, the resulting density matrix for a bipartite qutrit system is employed to investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 F. M. Guedes , M. S. Guimaraes , I. Roditi , S. P. Sorella

We investigate the transition of a two-level atom as the Unruh-Dewitt detector accelerated in the electromagnetic field in this paper. The enhancement of the transition probability is found for different field states under the conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

We investigate the Unruh-Fulling effect in a class of nonlocal field theories by examining both the number operator and Unruh-DeWitt detector methods. Unlike in previous literature, we use Unruh quantization to quantize the matter field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We demonstrate that the Unruh-DeWitt harmonic-oscillator detectors in (1+1) dimensions derivative-coupled with a massless scalar field can mimic the atom mirrors in free space. Without introducing the Dirichlet boundary condition to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-30 Shih-Yuin Lin

Quantum uncertainty is deeply linked to quantum correlations and relativistic motion. The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum memory offers a powerful way to study how shared entanglement affects measurement precision. However, under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ming-Ming Du , Hong-Wei Li , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Lan Zhou , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng

In this work we ask how an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector with harmonic oscillator internal degrees of freedom $Q$ measuring an evolving quantum matter field $\Phi(\bm{x}, t)$ in an expanding universe with scale factor $a(t)$ responds. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

We propose a scheme to study the effect of motion on measurements of a quantum field carried out by a finite-size detector. We introduce a model of projective detection of a localised field mode in an arbitrary reference frame. We apply it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 Andrzej Dragan , Jason Doukas , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , David Edward Bruschi

We analyze scenarios in which pairs of Unruh-DeWitt-like detectors interact with scalar field(s) with bi-linear and quadratic coupling. For all cases -- real scalar fields, charged scalar fields, and even for couplings mixing two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Allison M. Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is a well-known fact that, in recent times, is being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually understood formulation studies the possibility of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study the Anti-Unruh effect in general stationary scenarios. We find that, for accelerated trajectories, a particle detector coupled to a KMS state of a quantum field can cool down (click less often) as the KMS temperature increases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon

We investigate the response function of an inertial Unruh-deWitt detector in an impulsive plane wave spacetime. Through symmetry considerations applied to the Wightman function, we demonstrate that the response function remains invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Ricardo A. Mosna

We argue that the energy levels of an Unruh detector experience an effect similar to the Lamb shift in Quantum Electrodynamics. As a consequence, the spectrum of energy levels in a curved background is different from that in flat space. As…

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

We investigate how entangled inertial Unruh-DeWitt detectors are affected by interaction with a quantum field using a nonperturbative method. Inertial detectors in a $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann