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Particle detectors are an ubiquitous tool for probing quantum fields in the context of relativistic quantum information (RQI). We formulate the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) particle detector model in terms of the path integral formalism. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-12 I. M. Burbano , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

We experimentally perform the simulation of open quantum dynamics in single-qudit systems. Using a spatial light modulator as a dissipative optical device, we implement dissipative-dynamical maps onto qudits encoded in the transverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 B. Marques , A. A. Matoso , W. M. Pimenta , A. J. Gutiérrez-Esparza , M. F. Santos , S. Pádua

A quantum system composed of two or more subsystems can be in an entangled state, i.e. a state in which the properties of the global system are well defined but the properties of each subsystem are not. Entanglement is at the heart of…

Qubit-field quantum transduction provides numerous advantages to quantum computing, such as device-specific error-correcting codes, efficient scalability, and effective entanglement generation. An all-to-all connected bus of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Eric W. Aspling

We propose a novel quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is obtained by scanning the photon that did not interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shahaf Asban , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

A simple but powerful particle detector model consists of a two-level system coupled to a field, where the detected particles are the field excitations. This is known as the Unruh-DeWitt detector. Research using this model has often focused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Carolyn E. Wood , Magdalena Zych

We develop a localized particle detector model formulated as a massive quantum field on Minkowski spacetime with the spatial origin excised. To render the problem well-posed at the puncture, we impose boundary conditions at the excised…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Victor Hugo M. Ramos , João Paulo M. Pitelli , João C. A. Barata

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

Quantum radiated energy flux emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector, with the internal harmonic oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field, in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space is studied by numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Shih-Yuin Lin

In this work, we investigate the interaction between a uniformly accelerated single qubit and a fermionic spinor field. Here we consider both the massless and the massive fermionic spinor fields. The qubit-field interaction occurs over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , P. H. M. Barros , H. A. S. Costa

We reports direct and scalable measurement of multiparticle entanglement concurrence and three-tangle with embedding photonic quantum simulators. In this embedding framework [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 240502 (2013)], $N$-qubit entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ming-Cheng Chen , Dian Wu , Zu-En Su , Xin-Dong Cai , Xi-Lin Wang , Tao Yang , Li Li , Nai-Le Liu , Chao-Yang Lu , Jan-Wei Pan

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

We present a generalized framework for $n$-photon processes involving a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field. We utilize the $n^\text{th}$ order Dyson series to derive the final quantum state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Arash Azizi

Unruh-DeWitt particle detector models are studied in a variety of time-dependent and time-independent settings. We work within the framework of first-order perturbation theory and couple the detector to a massless scalar field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-16 Lee Hodgkinson

Enhancing optical nonlinearities so that they become appreciable on the single photon level and lead to nonclassical light fields has been a central objective in quantum optics for many years. After this has been achieved in individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Michael J. Hartmann

We analyze several implementations of all-optical single-photon transistors (SPTs) operating in the continuous-wave (cw) regime, as presented in the companion paper [Phys. Rev. A 113, L011701 (2026)]. The devices rely on ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Iason Tsiamis , Oleksandr Kyriienko , Anders S. Sørensen

Optical multi-mode systems provide large scale Hilbert spaces that can be accessed and controlled using single photon sources, linear optics and photon detection. Here, we consider the bipartite entanglement generated by coherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-30 Jun-Yi Wu , Holger F. Hofmann

We compute how an accelerating qubit coupled to a scalar field - i.e. an Unruh-DeWitt detector - evolves in flat space, with an emphasis on its late-time behaviour. When calculable, the qubit evolves towards a thermal state for a field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Greg Kaplanek , C. P. Burgess

The Unruh effect is notoriously difficult to detect, as it is exponentially overwhelmed by Wigner--Weisskopf spontaneous emission. We show that this fundamental obstacle can be overcome by harnessing multi-detector quantum interference. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Arash Azizi