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We investigate scalar particle creation in a set of bouncing models where the bounce occurs due to quantum cosmological effects described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. The scalar field can be either conformally or minimally coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-03 Diogo C. F. Celani , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro D. P. Vitenti

We study the impact of the zero-mode of a quantum field on the evolution of a particle detector. For a massless scalar field in a periodic cavity, we show that the impact of the zero mode on the Unruh-DeWitt detector and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jorma Louko

Particle detector models such as the Unruh-deWitt detector are widely used in relativistic quantum information and field theory to probe the global features of spacetime and quantum fields. These detectors are typically modelled as coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Joshua Foo , Sho Onoe , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We investigate momentum reconstruction for particle processes observed by Unruh-deWitt detector setups. In particular, we derive the probability distributions for particle momenta conditioned on detector clicks in three spatial dimensions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jesse Huhtala , Iiro Vilja

A simple but powerful particle detector model consists of a two-level system coupled to a field, where the detected particles are the field excitations. This is known as the Unruh-DeWitt detector. Research using this model has often focused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Carolyn E. Wood , Magdalena Zych

Unruh-DeWitt particle detector models are studied in a variety of time-dependent and time-independent settings. We work within the framework of first-order perturbation theory and couple the detector to a massless scalar field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-16 Lee Hodgkinson

We present novel methods to numerically address the problem of characterizing the response of particle detectors in curved spacetimes. These methods allow for the integration of the Wightman function, at least in principle, in rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Keith K. Ng , Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Particle detector models allow to give an operational definition to the particle content of a given quantum state of a field theory. The commonly adopted Unruh-DeWitt type of detector is known to undergo temporary transitions to excited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio Costa , Federico Piazza

Since quantum field theories do not possess proper position observables, Unruh-DeWitt detector models serve as a key theoretical tool for extracting localized spatio-temporal information from quantum fields. Most studies have been limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Daniel Hümmer , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

We investigate the transition probability of a Unruh-deWitt particle detector evolving in flat space and in a wormhole spacetime, in various scenarios. In Minkowski space, we look at the response of the detector on trajectories having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 Robert Blaga

Particle detectors are an ubiquitous tool for probing quantum fields in the context of relativistic quantum information (RQI). We formulate the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) particle detector model in terms of the path integral formalism. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-12 I. M. Burbano , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu

Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting locally with a quantum field are systems under consideration for relativistic quantum information processing. In most works, the detectors are assumed to be point-like and, therefore, couple with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector that couples locally to a quantum field is an important tool for operationally studying field properties. Here, we study the response of an inertial UDW detector to a non-relativistic particle state of a massive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Qidong Xu

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

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector which couples linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field on the static cylindrical quotient of the (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, allowing the detector's motion to remain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint

In massless scalar field cosmology, imposing the universe's physical volume as fundamentally discrete resolves the big bang singularity via a big bounce. We use quantum field theory on curved background to numerically track the number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Mustafa Saeed , Irfan Javed , Aiman Nauman

In this paper, we have presented a bouncing cosmological model of the Universe in an extended theory of gravity. The dynamical behaviour of the model obtained from the flat FLRW space-time along with the violation of null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-22 A. S. Agrawal , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

In the present paper, Unruh--DeWitt detectors are used in order to investigate the issue of temperature associated with a spherically symmetric dynamical space-times. Firstly, we review the semi-classical tunneling method, then we introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , M. Tolotti , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

In the framework of massive gravity with a de Sitter reference metric, we study homogeneous and isotropic solutions with positive spatial curvature. Remarkably, we find that bounces can occur when cosmological matter satisfies the strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 David Langlois , Atsushi Naruko
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