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In this work, we propose to investigate the information behavior of quantum systems through accelerated detectors quadratically coupled with a massless scalar field. In addition, we made detailed comparisons with the case of linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 P. H. M. Barros , P. R. S. Carvalho , H. A. S. Costa

We investigated the influence of the massive scalar field on the information degradation concerning the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors. In this conjecture, we adopted a system with a finite and large interaction time. To accomplish our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 P. H. M. Barros , F. C. E. Lima , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

We obtained an exact solution for a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in (3+1) dimensions which enables us to study the entire evolution of the total system, from the initial transient to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector that couples locally to a quantum field is an important tool for operationally studying field properties. Here, we study the response of an inertial UDW detector to a non-relativistic particle state of a massive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Qidong Xu

The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

Applications of Unruh-Fulling (UF) effect are well studied in literature via the interaction of Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector and {\it single} scalar field. In this work, we investigate a toy model, where the detector is interacting {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector which couples linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field on the static cylindrical quotient of the (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, allowing the detector's motion to remain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint

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 study the finite time response of an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector described by a qubit (two-level system) moving with uniform constant acceleration in maximally symmetric spacetimes. The $D$ dimensional massless fermionic response…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Shahnewaz Ahmed , Mir Mehedi Faruk , Muktadir Rahman

In a flat spacetime with one spatial dimension compactified, inertial reference frames are not all equivalent, but there are the preferred ones. This paper investigates the nonequivalence of inertial frames and also that of uniformly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Dah-Wei Chiou

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 analyse the instantaneous transition rate of an accelerated Unruh-DeWitt particle detector whose coupling to a quantum field on Minkowski space is regularised by a finite spatial profile. We show, under mild technical assumptions, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Louko , A. Satz

We revisit the Unruh effect within a general framework based on direct, probability-level calculations. We rederive the transition rate of a uniformly accelerating Unruh-DeWitt monopole detector coupled to a massive scalar field, from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

We examine the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in an arbitrary Hadamard state in four-dimensional curved spacetime. Using smooth switching functions to turn on and off the interaction, we obtain a regulator-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

Unruh deWitt detectors are important constructs in studying the dynamics of quantum fields in any geometric background. Curvature also plays an important role in setting up the correlations of a quantum field in a given spacetime. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Ankit Dhanuka , Kinjalk Lochan

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

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

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 treat an Unruh-DeWitt detector as an open quantum system and evaluate the response of a uniformly accelerated detector: (i) interacting locally with the derivatives of a massless scalar field and (ii) linearly coupled to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Dimitris Moustos

We study the effects of motion for an Unruh-DeWitt detector, modeled as a two-level system, on the amount of coherence extracted, when it interacts with a massless scalar coherent field in 1+1 Minkowski spacetime. We observe that compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos , Kostas Blekos
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