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We calculate the radiation resulting from the Unruh effect for strongly accelerated electrons and show that the photons are created in pairs whose polarizations are maximally entangled. Apart from the photon statistics, this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralf Schützhold , Gernot Schaller , Dietrich Habs

The Unruh effect predicts an astonishing phenomenon that an accelerated detector would detect counts despite being in a quantum field vacuum in the rest frame. Since the required detector acceleration for its direct observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xu Cheng , Yue Li , Zehua Tian , Xingyu Zhao , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin

A way to encode acceleration directly into fields has recently being proposed, thus establishing a new kind of fields, the accelerated fields. The definition of accelerated fields points to the quantization of space and time, analogously to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 Lucas Chibebe Céleri , Vasileios Kiosses

We consider a one-dimensional effective quantum electrodynamics (QED) model of the relativistic hydrogen-like atom using delta-potential interactions. We discuss the general exact theory and the Hartree-Fock approximation. The present…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Timothée Audinet , Julien Toulouse

We consider a theory of scalar QED on a spatially compact 1+1-dimensional spacetime. By considering a constant electric field pointing down the compact dimension, we compute the quantum effective action by integrating out the scalar degrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Prasant Samantray , Suprit Singh

Quantum coherence as the fundamental characteristic of quantum physics, provides the valuable resource for quantum computation in exceeding the power of classical algorithms. The exploration of quantum coherence in relativistic systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Xu Chen , Chunfeng Wu , Hong-Yi Su , Chang-Liang Ren , Jing-Ling Chen

The feasibility of obtaining exact analytical results in the realm of QED in the presence of a background electromagnetic field is almost exclusively limited to a few tractable cases, where the Dirac equation in the corresponding background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Di Piazza

Zero-point fluctuations are a universal consequence of quantum theory. Vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic field have provided crucial evidence and guidance for QED as a successful quantum field theory with a defining gauge symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 Charles H. -T. Wang , Melania Mieczkowska

Quantum entanglement as the one of the most general quantum resources, can be quantified by von Neumann entropy. However, as we know, the von Neumann entropy is only statistical quantity or operator, it therefore has fluctuation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sixuan Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

Fundamental quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes such as spontaneous emission and electron-photon scattering encompass a wealth of phenomena that form one of the cornerstones of modern science and technology. Conventionally,…

Controlling single-electron states becomes increasingly important due to the wide-ranging advances in electron quantum optics. Single-electron control enables coherent manipulation of individual electrons and the ability to exploit the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Mauro Ballicchia , Clemens Etl , Mihail Nedjalkov , Josef Weinbub

The dynamics of a free charged particle, initially described by a coherent wave packet, interacting with an environment, i.e. the electromagnetic field characterized by a temperature $T$, is studied. Using the dipole approximation the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Bellomo , G. Compagno , F. Petruccione

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

At present, there are many methods of quantum entanglement of particles with an electromagnetic field. Most methods have a low probability of quantum entanglement and not an exact theoretical apparatus based on an approximate solution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Dmitry Makarov

In this paper, we analyse the quantum coherence behaviors of a single qubit in the relativistic regime beyond the single-mode approximation. Firstly, we investigate the freezing condition of quantum coherence in fermionic system. We also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zhiming Huang , Haozhen Situ , Cai Zhang

The last two decades experimentally affirmed the quantum nature of free electron wavepackets by the rapid development of transmission electron microscopes into ultrafast, quantum-coherent systems. In particular, ultrafast electron pulses…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-30 Roy Shiloh , Tomas Chlouba , Peter Hommelhoff

We analyze the general radiation emission mechanism from a charged particle moving in a curved inhomogeneous magnetic field. The consideration of the gradient makes the curved vacuum magnetic field compatible with the Maxwell equations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Harko , K. S. Cheng

With the aim of progressing toward a practical implementation of an effective quantum-electrodynamics (QED) theory of atoms and molecules, which includes the effects of vacuum polarization through the creation of virtual electron-positron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Timothée Audinet , Umberto Morellini , Antoine Levitt , Julien Toulouse

We discuss the various manifestations of quantum decoherence in the forms of dephasing, entanglement with the environment, and revelation of "which-path" information. As a specific example, we consider an electron interference experiment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford

In the context of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Gaussian wavepacket solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation provide useful physical insight. This is not the case for relativistic quantum mechanics, however, for which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hung-Ming Tsai , Bill Poirier