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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…

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Utilizing quantum coherence monotone, we reexamine the thermal nature of the Unruh effect of an accelerating detector. We consider an UDW detector coupling to a n-dimensional conformal field in Minkowski spacetime, whose response spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-20 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang , Yihao Zhou

In a flat spacetime with one spatial dimension compactified, inertial reference frames are not all equivalent, but there are the preferred ones. This paper investigates the nonequivalence of inertial frames and also that of uniformly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Dah-Wei Chiou

In this work, we investigate the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems (with finite interaction time). We consider a detector moving along a spatial trajectory within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a bifurcating Killing horizon. Such an effect can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Levy B. N. Batista , André G. S. Landulfo , Robert B. Mann , George E. A. Matsas

We study the effects of motion for an Unruh-DeWitt detector, modeled as a two-level system, on the amount of coherence extracted, when it interacts with a massless scalar coherent field in 1+1 Minkowski spacetime. We observe that compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos , Kostas Blekos

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

It is of great interest to explore matter in nontrivial quantum arrangements, including Schrodinger cat-like states. Such states are sensitive to decoherence from their environment. Recently, in Ref. [1] we computed the rate of decoherence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Itamar J. Allali , Mark P. Hertzberg

We show that the predictions of spatially smeared particle detectors coupled to quantum fields are not generally covariant outside the pointlike limit. This lack of covariance manifests itself as an ambiguity in the time-ordering operation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Eduardo Martín-Martínez , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

A new theoretical framework to describe the experimental advances in electro-optic detection of broadband quantum states, specifically the quantum vacuum, is devised. By making use of fundamental concepts from quantum field theory on…

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

It is possible to associate temperatures with the non-extremal horizons of a large class of spherically symmetric spacetimes using periodicity in the Euclidean sector and this procedure works for the de Sitter spacetime as well. But, unlike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-08 Suprit Singh , Chandrima Ganguly , T. Padmanabhan

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

The quantum vacuum is not really empty; it is a reservoir of operationally accessible non-classical resources. Understanding how to extract these resources to fuel information processing is a core objective in quantum technologies and lies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jiayue Yang , Dyuman Bhattacharya , Ming Zhang , Robert B. Mann

In this work we investigate the quantum theory of light propagating in $D-$dimensional de Sitter spacetimes. To do so, we use the method of dynamic invariants to obtain the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-10 G. Alencar , I. Guedes , R. R. Landim , R. N. Costa Filho

Quantum gravity is expected to contain descriptions of semiclassical spacetime geometries in quantum superpositions. To date, no framework for modelling such superpositions has been devised. Here, we provide a new phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

Wannier-Stark localization has been proven to be a resource for quantum-enhanced sensitivity for precise estimation of a gradient field. An extremely promising feature of such probes is their ability to showcase such enhanced scaling even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat

This thesis collects my own and collaborative work I have been involved with finding localised systems in quantum field theory that are useful for quantum information. It draws from many well established physical theories such as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-23 Antony Richard Lee

We propose a method for simulating an Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled to a 1+1-dimensional massless scalar field, with a suitably-engineered $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinear interaction. In this simulation, the parameter playing the role of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Eugene Adjei , Kevin J. Resch , Agata M. Brańczyk

We treat an Unruh-DeWitt detector as an open quantum system and evaluate the response of a uniformly accelerated detector: (i) interacting locally with the derivatives of a massless scalar field and (ii) linearly coupled to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Dimitris Moustos