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Much of the discussion of decoherence has been in terms of a particle moving in one dimension that is placed in an initial superposition state (a Schr\"{o}dinger "cat" state) corresponding to two widely separated wave packets. Decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Murakami , G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

A quantum Schwarzschild spacetime and a quantum Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime with cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are constructed within the framework of a noncommutative Riemannian geometry developed in an earlier publication. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Ding Wang , R. B. Zhang , Xiao Zhang

We consider a particle detector model on 1+1-dimensional Minkowski space-time that is accelerated by a constant external acceleration a. The detector is coupled to a massless scalar test field. Due to the Unruh effect, this detector becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Franz Thoma

An alternative approach to decoherence, named non-dynamical decoherence is developed and used to resolve the quantum measurement problem. According to decoherence, the observed system is open to a macroscopic apparatus(together with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen

We investigate the motion of a test particle in a d-dimensional, spherically symmetric and static space-time supported by a mass $M$ plus a $\Lambda$-term. The motion is strongly dependent on the sign of $\Lambda$. In Schwarzschild-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. H. G. Bessa , J. A. S. Lima

We study correlations between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cylindrical cavity. Boundary conditions strongly modify the detector-correlation dynamics relative to free space. The entanglement negativity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Shagun Kaushal , Harkirat Singh Sahota

Quantum entanglement manifests as a distinctive correlation between particles that transcends classical boundaries when their quantum states cannot be described independently. On the other hand, as quantum systems interact with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Samuel Marquez Gonzalez

Exploring quantum phenomena in a curved spacetime is an emerging interdisciplinary area relating many fields in physics such as general relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum information. One famous prediction is the Hawking-Unruh thermal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Jiazhong Hu , Lei Feng , Zhendong Zhang , Cheng Chin

Before we ask what the quantum gravity theory is, it is a legitimate quest to formulate a robust quantum field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS). Several conceptual problems, especially unitarity loss (pure states evolving into mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We consider the thermodynamic properties of $(d+1)$-dimensional spacetimes with NUT charges. Such spacetimes are asymptotically locally anti de Sitter (or flat), with non-trivial topology in their spatial sections, and can have fixed point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 R. Clarkson , L. Fatibene , R. B. Mann

We analyse the response of an arbitrarily-accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetimes of dimensions up to six, working within first-order perturbation theory and assuming a smooth switch-on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

The decoherence phenomenon arising from an environmental monitoring of the state of a quantum system, as opposed to monitoring of a preferred observable, is worked out in detail using two equivalent formulations, namely, repeated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Dorje C. Brody , Rishindra Melanathuru

We study Dicke superradiance as collective and coherent absorption and (time-delayed) emission of photons from an ensemble of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Since this process depends on the coherence properties of the atoms (e.g.,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Nicolai ten Brinke , Ralf Schützhold

The quantum channel between two particle detectors provides a prototype framework for the study of wireless quantum communication via relativistic quantum fields. In this article we calculate the classical channel capacity between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Robert H. Jonsson

A long-standing debate on Unruh effect is about its obscure thermal nature. In this Letter, we use quantum Fisher information (QFI) as an effective probe to explore the thermal nature of Unruh effect from both local and global perspectives.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang

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 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

We present a quantum-optical platform for simulating relativistic detector-field interactions using entangled nonlinear biphoton sources (ENBSs), realized through phase-controlled single-photon frequency-comb (SPFC) sources. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

We develop a detector-based framework in which quantum theory and spacetime geometry arise within a common inferential structure. Detector states and a detector kernel assign amplitudes to measurement events, allowing quantum theory to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Marcello Rotondo

The observed large-scale structure in our Universe is seen as a result of quantum fluctuations amplified by spacetime evolution. This, and related problems in cosmology, asks for an understanding of the quantum fields of the standard model…