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We study the response function of Unruh-deWitt detectors placed in a flat spacetime inside a thin matter shell. We show that the response function distinguishes between the local and global (Minkowski) inertial frames and picks up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-10 Wan Cong , Jiri Bicak , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

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 consider entanglement extraction into two two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors from a vacuum of a neutral massless quantum scalar field in a four-dimensional spacetime, where the general monopole coupling to the scalar field is assumed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 Jun-ichirou Koga , Gen Kimura , Kengo Maeda

We investigate the entanglement generation or harvesting between two identical, comoving Unruh-DeWitt detectors in the cosmological de Sitter spacetime. The detectors are assumed to be unentangled initially. They are individually coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Shagun Kaushal , Sourav Bhattacharya

The "flexible boundary condition" method, introduced by Sinclair and coworkers in the 1970s, remains among the most popular methods for simulating isolated two-dimensional crystalline defects, embedded in an effectively infinite atomistic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-15 M. Hodapp

This paper completes a previous work by constructing a class of positive-energy relativistic spatial localization observables in Minkowski spacetime within quantum field theory, using the stress-energy-momentum tensor smeared with suitable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Valter Moretti

We study Unruh phenomena for a qudit detector coupled to a quantized scalar field, comparing its response to that of a standard qubit-based Unruh-DeWitt detector. We show that there are limitations to the utility of the detailed balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Caroline Lima , Everett Patterson , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

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

Recently, interest has been growing in studies on discrete or "pixelated" space-time that, through modifications in the dispersion relation, can treat the vacuum as a dispersive medium. Discrete spacetime considers that spacetime has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Pedro H. M. Barros , Helder A. S. Costa

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 develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Anita Gjesteland , Sigrun Ortleb , Salim Elghawi , David C. Del Rey Fernández

Although the thermal and radiative effects associated with a two-level quantum system undergoing acceleration are now widely understood and accepted, a surprising amount of controversy still surrounds the simpler and older problem of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Gabriel Cozzella , Stephen A. Fulling , André G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas

We examine a quantised massive scalar field in $(1+1)$-dimensional spatially compact cosmological spacetimes in which the early time and late time expansion laws provide distinguished definitions of Fock "in" and "out" vacua, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vladimir Toussaint , Jorma Louko

We examine in $(2+1)$-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space the phenomena of entanglement harvesting - the process in which a pair of detectors (two-level atoms) extract entanglement from a quantum field through local interactions with the…

A conformally invariant model of two interacting massless particles in Minkowski space was proposed by Casalbuoni and Gomis [1]. We generalize this model to the case of de Sitter space from the perspective of geodesic distance, in such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-20 Naohiro Kanda , Satoshi Okano

The Unruh and Hawking effects are investigated on certain families of topologically non-trivial spacetimes using a variety of techniques. First we present the Bogolubov transformation between Rindler and Minkowski quantizations on two flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Langlois

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi

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

We explore the quantum superposition of boundary conditions in the context of the Poincar\'e patch of the two-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space ($\mathrm{PAdS}_2$). Focusing on Robin (mixed) boundary conditions (RBC), we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 João P. M. Pitelli , Bruno S. Felipe , Claudio Dappiaggi , Elizabeth Winstanley

We investigate the response function of an inertial Unruh-deWitt detector in an impulsive plane wave spacetime. Through symmetry considerations applied to the Wightman function, we demonstrate that the response function remains invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Ricardo A. Mosna