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A uniformly accelerated detector in an inertial vacuum undergoes an unavoidable dissipation, and the final steady-state becomes thermal. However, to attain such a mixed state, there is no bound for the acceleration of the single atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Saptarshi Saha , Arpan Chatterjee , Chiranjeeb Singha

We discuss anomalous decoherence effects at zero and finite temperatures in driven coupled quantum spin systems. By numerical simulations of the quantum master equation, it is found that the entanglement of two coupled spin qubits exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chuan-Jia Shan , Pan-Pan Wu , Wei-Wen Cheng , Ji-Bing Liu , Tang-Kun Liu

We study the estimation of parameters in a quantum metrology scheme based on entangled many-body Unruh-DeWitt detectors. It is found that the precision for the estimation of Unruh effect can be enhanced via initial state preparations and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Jieci Wang , Li Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Quantum steering is a perplexing feature at the heart of quantum mechanics that provides profound implications in understanding the nature of physical reality. On the other hand, the effect of relativistic features on quantum systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Yusef Maleki , Bahram Ahansaz , Kangle Li , Alireza Maleki

The quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is central to multiparameter quantum metrology, dictating the attainable sensitivity via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we investigate the ultimate precision limits for…

In this paper we analyze the interaction of a uniformly accelerated detector with a quantum field in (3+1)D spacetime, aiming at the issue of how kinematics can render vacuum fluctuations the appearance of thermal radiance in the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We consider the physical situations where the resource theories of coherence and thermodynamics play competing roles. In particular, we study the creation of quantum coherence using unitary operations with limited thermodynamic resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Avijit Misra , Uttam Singh , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Arun Kumar Pati

Recently Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have shown that quantum superpositions held outside of Killing horizons will decohere at a steady rate. This occurs because of the inevitable radiation of soft photons (gravitons), which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Jordan Wilson-Gerow , Annika Dugad , Yanbei Chen

We study the time-dependence of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one at rest in a Minkowski frame, the other non-uniformly accelerated in some specified way. The two detectors each couple to a scalar quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 David C. M. Ostapchuk , Shih-Yuin Lin , Robert B. Mann , B. L. Hu

This paper presents a novel theoretical model to simulate the Unruh temperature by relating it to the critical temperature of multiple Bose-Einstein thermal baths. These thermal baths are conceptualized as snapshots of a Bose-Firework…

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, originally derived for classical Markov-jump processes, provides a trade-off relation between precision and dissipation, deepening our understanding of the performance of quantum thermal machines.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

The bidirectional steerability between different-size subsystems is discussed for a single parameter accelerated qubit-qutrit system. The decoherence due to the mixing and acceleration parameters is investigated, where for the total system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , N. Metwally , M. M. A. Ahmed , A. -S. F. Obada

Thermal phenomena in quantum field theory can be detected with the aid of particle detectors coupled to quantum fields along stationary worldlines, by testing whether the response of such a detector satisfies the detailed balance version of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

How long does a uniformly rotating observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to register an approximately thermal response due to the circular motion Unruh effect? We address this question for a massless scalar field in 2+1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Leo J. A. Parry , Diego Vidal-Cruzprieto , Christopher J. Fewster , Jorma Louko

We address the problem of thermodynamic equilibrium with constant acceleration along the velocity field lines in a quantum relativistic statistical mechanics framework. We show that for a free scalar quantum field, after vacuum subtraction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 F. Becattini

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector modeled as a harmonic oscillator that is coupled to a massless quantum scalar field in the (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system and employ a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 Dimitris Moustos

We study the temperatures for the circular and drifted Rindler motions by employing the Unruh-DeWitt detector method. In the circular motion, the temperature is increasing along the radius of the circular motion until it reaches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Yongwan Gim , Hwajin Um , Wontae Kim

Coherence is the most fundamental quantum resource in quantum information processing. How fast a physical system gets coherence or decoherence is a critical ingredient. We present an attainable quantum speed limit based on the variation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zi-yi Mai , CHang-shui Yu

Quantum coherence, quantum entanglement and quantum nonlocality are important resources in quantum information precessing. However, decoherence happens when a quantum system interacts with the external environments. We study the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Tinggui Zhang , Hong Yang , Shao-Ming Fei

Previous studies have shown that the Unruh effect completely destroys quantum entanglement and coherence of bipartite states, as modeled by entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors. But does the Unruh effect have a different impact on quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Si-Han Li , Si-Han Shang , Shu-Min Wu