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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 describe the quantum and classical radiation by a uniformly accelerating point source in terms of the elementary processes of absorption and emission of Rindler scalar photons of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh bath observed by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. E. Diaz , J. Stephany

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

If an Unruh-DeWitt detector moves with a uniform acceleration in Fock-space vacuum, then the transition rate of the detector is proportional to the thermal spectrum. It is well known that the transition rate of the detector crucially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-05 Gopal Sardar , Subhashish Banerjee

Moving detectors in relativistic quantum field theories reveal the fundamental entangled structure of the vacuum which manifests, for instance, through its thermal character when probed by a uniformly accelerated detector. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Benjamin Roussel , Alexandre Feller

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 radiated power emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1)D Minkowski space, with the internal harmonic oscillator minimally coupled to a massless scalar field, is obtained non-perturbatively by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shih-Yuin Lin

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the dynamics of an accelerated quantum battery (QB), modeled as an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a real massless scalar quantum field. The QB is driven by an external classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xiaobao Liu , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

We study, using Rindler coordinates, the quantization of a charged scalar field interacting with a constant, external, electric field. First we establish the expression of the Schwinger vacuum decay rate, using the operator formalism. Then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Cl. Gabriel , Ph. Spindel

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has recently been extended to describe many-body open quantum systems (OQS) evolving under non-unitary dynamics according to a quantum master equation. In the master equation approach,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David G. Tempel , Mark A. Watson , Roberto Olivares-Amaya , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is a well-known fact that, in recent times, is being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually understood formulation studies the possibility of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study the two-path interference of single-particle pulses measured by the Unruh-DeWitt-type quantum detector, which itself is a quantum state as well as the incoming pulse, and of which the interaction with the pulse is described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Bo-Hung Chen , Tsung-Wei Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

If an Unruh-DeWitt detector operates for an infinite proper time along the trajectory of a uniformly accelerated observer in Fock space then induced transition rate of the detector is proportional to Planck distribution. For a realistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-20 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Gopal Sardar

In this work, we investigate the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems (with finite interaction time). We consider a detector moving along a spatial trajectory within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

Quantum correlations that typically develop between a quantum battery and its charger reduce the amount of work extractable from the battery. We show that by coupling the system with an additional environment that can be continuously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Gabriele Cenedese , Giuliano Benenti , Dario Ferraro , Marco G. Genoni

The quantum regression theorem (QRT) is the most-widely used tool for calculating multitime correlation functions for the assessment of quantum emitters. It is an approximate method based on a Markov assumption for the environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 M. Cosacchi , T. Seidelmann , M. Cygorek , A. Vagov , D. E. Reiter , V. M. Axt

A relativistic theory of gravity like general relativity produces phenomena differing fundamentally from Newton's theory. An example, analogous to electromagnetic induction, is gravitomagnetism, or the dragging of inertial frames by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Wan Cong , Jiri Bicak , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector modeled as a harmonic oscillator that is coupled to a massless quantum scalar field in the (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system and employ a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-28 Dimitris Moustos

We analyse the response function of an Unruh--DeWitt detector moving with time-dependent acceleration along a one-dimensional trajectory in Minkowski spacetime. To extract the physics of the process, we propose an adiabatic expansion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-26 Luis C. Barbado , Matt Visser

In this work we ask how an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector with harmonic oscillator internal degrees of freedom $Q$ measuring an evolving quantum matter field $\Phi(\bm{x}, t)$ in an expanding universe with scale factor $a(t)$ responds. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu