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We study semi-classical particle production in non-singular bouncing cosmologies by employing the Unruh-DeWitt model of a particle detector propagating in this class of spacetimes. The scale factor for the bouncing cosmology is derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Aindriú Conroy , Peter Taylor

This article offers a new approach for analysing the dynamic behaviour of distributions of charged particles in an electromagnetic field. After discussing the limitations inherent in the Lorentz-Dirac equation for a single point particle a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David A. Burton , Jonathan Gratus , Robin W. Tucker

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

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector in inertial and circular motion in Minkowski spacetime of arbitrary dimension, coupled to a quantised scalar field with the Lorentz-violating dispersion relation $\omega = |{\bf k}|\, f (|{\bf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Jorma Louko , Samuel D. Upton

We analyse the emergence of the Unruh effect within the context of a field Lagrangian theory associated to the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth order oscillator model. To this end, we introduce a transformation that brings the Hamiltonian bounded from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Jairo Martínez-Montoya , Alberto Molgado

In pursuit of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, operational approaches offer insights into quantum-gravitational effects produced by quantum superposition of different spacetimes not diffeomorphic to one another. Recent work applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Lakshay Goel , Everett A. Patterson , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Mahdi Torabian , Robert B. Mann , Niayesh Afshordi

We investigate the behavior of tetrapartite entanglement in a four-qubit Dicke state under relativistic motion by employing the Unruh-DeWitt detector model, where one detector undergoes uniform acceleration. We show that the entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Shu-Min Wu , Si-Han Shang , Si-Yu Liu , Rui-Yang Xu , Qianqian Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime is perhaps the most reliable framework in which one can investigate quantum effects in the presence of strong gravitational fields. Nevertheless, it is often studied by means of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Níckolas de Aguiar Alves

We investigate the quantum radiation produced by an Unruh-De Witt detector in a uniformly accelerating motion coupled to the vacuum fluctuations. Quantum radiation is nonvanishing, which is consistent with the previous calculation by Lin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Satoshi Iso , Naritaka Oshita , Rumi Tatsukawa , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

We study a uniformly accelerated detector coupled to a massless scalar field for a finite time interval. By considering the detector initially prepared in a superposition state, qubit state, we find that the acceleration induces decoherence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Helder A. S. Costa

We introduce two forms of correlations on two $d$-level (qudit) systems for entanglement detection. The correlations can be measured via experimentally tractable two local measurement settings and their separable bounds are determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Ryo Namiki , Yuuki Tokunaga

We consider an entanglement harvesting protocol between two Unruh-deWitt detectors in quantum superpositions of static trajectories in the static de Sitter and thermal Minkowski spacetimes. We demonstrate for the first time that the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We put forward a physical model of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and use quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect in a high dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By means of the open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Yan Chen , Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Xiang Hao

Orbifolding two-dimensional quantum field theories by a symmetry group can involve a choice of discrete torsion. We apply the general formalism of `orbifolding defects' to study and elucidate discrete torsion for topological field theories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-24 Ilka Brunner , Nils Carqueville , Daniel Plencner

According to the `Cosmological Central Dogma', de Sitter space can be viewed as a quantum mechanical system with a finite number of degrees of freedom, set by the horizon area. We use this assumption together with the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Bjoern Hassfeld , Arthur Hebecker , Manfred Salmhofer , Jonah Cedric Strauss , Johannes Walcher

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu

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

We propose to simulate a Dirac field near an event horizon using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Such a quantum simulator allows for the observation of the celebrated Unruh effect. Our proposal involves three stages: (1) preparation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-01 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Leticia Tarruell , Maciej Lewenstein , Alessio Celi

We analyze the vacuum fluctuations and the stress-energy tensor of a scalar field of mass $M$ in a conical spacetime, where the topological singularity at the apex requires boundary conditions for the field equation. The necessity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Ricardo A. Mosna , Victor Hugo M. Ramos , João C. A. Barata

The uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector serves as a fundamental model in relativistic quantum metrology. While previous studies have mainly concentrated on single-parameter estimation via quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shoukang Chang , Yashu Yang , Wei Ye , Yawen Tang , Hui Cao , Huan Zhang , Zunlue Zhu , Shaoming Fei , Xingdong Zhao