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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…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Nicholas Bornman , Achim Kempf , Andrew Forbes

We explore the quantum coherence between a pair of entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors, interacting with a quantum field, using a nonperturbative approach in a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Wentao Liu

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting locally with a quantum field are systems under consideration for relativistic quantum information processing. In most works, the detectors are assumed to be point-like and, therefore, couple with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

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 show an analogy between static quantum emitters coupled to a single mode of a quantum field and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors. We envision a way to simulate a variety of relativistic quantum field settings beyond the reach of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. del Rey , D. Porras , E. Martin-Martinez

We demonstrate that a single-photon field modulated with n different pseudorandom phase sequences (PPSs) can constitute a 2^n-dimensional Hilbert space that contains tensor product structure. By using the single photon field modulated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jian Fu , Yi Hu , Shuo Sun

We analyze the two-photon emission process of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. Using second-order perturbation theory, we derive the exact final quantum state of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Arash Azizi

We study the system of two localized detectors (oscillators) interacting through a massless quantum field in a vacuum state via an Unruh-DeWitt coupling. This system admits an exact solution providing a good model for addressing fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Theodora Kolioni , Charis Anastopoulos

In this work we make the connection between the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model applied to quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and the rigorous construction of the spin-boson model. With some modifications, we show that existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Erickson Tjoa , Finnian Gray

In this paper we analyze an exactly solvable model consisting of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector which interacts linearly with a massless quantum field in Minkowski spacetime with a perfectly reflecting flat plane boundary. Firstly a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rong Zhou , Ryan O. Behunin , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We analyze scenarios in which pairs of Unruh-DeWitt-like detectors interact with scalar field(s) with bi-linear and quadratic coupling. For all cases -- real scalar fields, charged scalar fields, and even for couplings mixing two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Allison M. Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We investigate relativistic effects on the performance of a quantum battery in an open quantum framework. We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector driven by a coherent classical pulse as a quantum battery that is interacting with a massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar

Since quantum field theories do not possess proper position observables, Unruh-DeWitt detector models serve as a key theoretical tool for extracting localized spatio-temporal information from quantum fields. Most studies have been limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Daniel Hümmer , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

We investigate unitarily inequivalent representations of the algebra of operators in quantum field theory in the cases where there is a Fock representation of the commutation relations. We examine more closely the operational definition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 F. Sobrero , M. S. Soares , T. Guerreiro , N. F. Svaiter

We demonstrate that the quantum vacuum, as perceived by a uniformly accelerating observer, can be harnessed to perform a quantum Z-gate. A two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector, prepared in a superposition of its ground and excited states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Arash Azizi

We review Unruh-DeWitt detectors and other models of detector-field interaction in a relativistic quantum field theory setting as a tool for extracting detector-detector, field-field and detector-field correlation functions of interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Jorma Louko

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 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

An effective simulation of quantum entanglement is presented using classical fields modulated with n pseudorandom phase sequences (PPSs) that constitute a n2^n-dimensional Hilbert space with a tensor product structure. Applications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jian Fu , Xingkun Wu
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