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We study the decoherence and thermalization of an Unruh-DeWitt detector linearly coupled to the free massless scalar field in flat spacetime of arbitrary dimensions ($d\geq 2$). The initial state of the detector is chosen to be a pure state…

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We investigate the performance of quantum fisher information under the Unruh-Hawking effect, where one of the observers (eg, Rob) is uniformly accelerated with respect to other partners. In the context of relativistic quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 Yao Yao , Xing Xiao , Li Ge , Xiao-guang Wang , Chang-pu Sun

The Unruh effect--the prediction that an accelerated observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath--remains one of the most profound yet experimentally unverified consequences of quantum field theory. This work analyzes a model for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Vladimir Toussaint --

We study the finite time response of an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector described by a qubit (two-level system) moving with uniform constant acceleration in maximally symmetric spacetimes. The $D$ dimensional massless fermionic response…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Shahnewaz Ahmed , Mir Mehedi Faruk , Muktadir Rahman

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

Recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to harvest quantum resources other than entanglement from a coherent scalar field. Employing time-dependent perturbation theory, we present a complete analysis of the conditions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos

It is shown that if the wave function of a quantum system undergoes an arbitrary random transformation such that the diagonal elements of the density matrix in the decoherence basis associated with a preferred observable remain constant,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

The Unruh effect is notoriously difficult to detect, as it is exponentially overwhelmed by Wigner--Weisskopf spontaneous emission. We show that this fundamental obstacle can be overcome by harnessing multi-detector quantum interference. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Arash Azizi

We investigate the back-action from a spatially pointlike particle detector on a quantum scalar field, as characterised by the expectation value of the field's stress-energy tensor, without conditioning on a measurement of the detector.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Adam S. Wilkinson , Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko , William G. Unruh

We discuss a parameter estimation problem using quantum decoherece in the double-slit interferometer. We consider a particle coupled to a massive scalar field after the particle passing through the double slit and solve the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Akira Matsumura , Taishi Ikeda , Shingo Kukita

In this work we make the connection between the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model applied to quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and the rigorous construction of the spin-boson model. With some modifications, we show that existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Erickson Tjoa , Finnian Gray

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

We review Unruh-DeWitt detectors and other models of detector-field interaction in a relativistic quantum field theory setting as a tool for extracting detector-detector, field-field and detector-field correlation functions of interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Jorma Louko

The model of Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to the scalar field for finite time is studied. A systematic way of computing finite time corrections in various cases is suggested and nonperturbative effects like thermalization are discussed. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 V. Shevchenko

We study the influence of the thermal background on the existence of the anti-Unruh effect. For the massless scalar field, we present that the anti-Unruh effect can appear when the detector is accelerated in the thermal field, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

We construct the detection rate for particle detectors moving along non-inertial trajectories and interacting with quantum fields. The detectors described here are characterized by the presence of records of observation throughout their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

An extended monopole detector at constant acceleration coupled to a massless scalar field is allowed to evolve quantum mechanically. It is found that while in the classical, followed by the point particle, limit the usual result Unruh…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Roberto Casadio , Giovanni Venturi

We show how the use of entanglement can enhance the precision of the detection of the Unruh effect with an accelerated probe. We use the Unruh-DeWitt model of a two-level atom interacting relativistically with a quantum field and treat the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing , Andrzej Dragan

We consider two initially entangled Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors and examine how the initial entanglement changes after interacting with a quantum scalar field. As initially nonentangled detectors extract entanglement from the field,…

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
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