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It is commonly believed that the fidelity of quantum teleportation using localized quantum objects with one party or both accelerated in vacuum would be degraded due to the heat-up by the Unruh effect. In this paper we point out that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-12 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu

Derived from semi-classical quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Unruh effect was known as a quantum effect. We find that there does exist a classical correspondence of this effect in electrodynamics. The thermal nature of the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shih-Yuin Lin

An object moving with the acceleration will change the temperature of environment around it, because of the presence of the Unruh thermal effect. In this work, we investigate the impact of Unruh thermal noise on the quantum-memory-assisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu-Kun Zhang , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement dynamics for a quantum system composed of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-Dewitt detectors interacting with a bath of massive scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-20 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

In this paper, we investigate the quantum correlations and coherence of two accelerating Unruh-deWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in 3 + 1 Minkowski space-time. We show that the entanglement is completely destroyed in the limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Muthuganesan , R. Radha

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

We study the Anti-Unruh effect in general stationary scenarios. We find that, for accelerated trajectories, a particle detector coupled to a KMS state of a quantum field can cool down (click less often) as the KMS temperature increases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon

How long does a uniformly accelerated observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to record thermality in the Unruh temperature? We address this question for a pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

We propose an operational definition for the local temperature of a quantum field employing Unruh-DeWitt detectors, as used in the study of the Unruh and Hawking effects. With this definition, an inhomogeneous quantum system in equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-03 Sandra Robles , Javier Rodriguez-Laguna

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 investigate the Unruh-Fulling effect in a class of nonlocal field theories by examining both the number operator and Unruh-DeWitt detector methods. Unlike in previous literature, we use Unruh quantization to quantize the matter field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al. as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-05 Jorma Louko

We analyze the response of a detector with a uniform acceleration $\alpha$ in $\kappa-$Minkowski spacetime using the first order perturbation theory. The monopole detector is coupled to a massless complex scalar field in such a way that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-30 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jae Hyung Yee , Chaiho Rim

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-28 Hao Xu

We investigate the transition probability rate of a Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector interacting with massless scalar field for a finite duration of proper time, $T$, of the detector. For a UD detector moving at a uniform acceleration, $a$, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 D. Jaffino Stargen

We study the late-time asymptotic state of a stationary Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a field in a thermal state. We work in an open system framework, where the field plays the role of an environment for the detector. The long-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Dimitris Moustos

In the lack of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, I consider free, scalar, quantum fields on curved spacetimes to gain insight into the interaction between quantum and gravitational phenomena. I employ the Unruh-DeWitt detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-21 Lissa de Souza Campos

We study the Unruh effect for an observer with a finite lifetime, using the thermal time hypothesis. The thermal time hypothesis maintains that: (i) time is the physical quantity determined by the flow defined by a state over an observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Martinetti , C. Rovelli

Quantum coherence, a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics, plays a crucial role in various quantum information tasks. However, preserving coherence under extreme conditions, such as relativistic acceleration, poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Hong-Wei Li , Yi-Hao Fan , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du

Using the influence functional formalism, the problem of an accelerating detector in the presence of a scalar field in its ground state is considered in Minkowski space. As is known since the work of Unruh, to a quantum mechanical detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 J. -G. Demers