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We investigate the entanglement dynamics for a quantum system composed of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors in different spacetime dimensions. It is found that the range of parameters in which entanglement can be generated is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Jiatong Yan , Baocheng Zhang

We study the quantum coherence in de Sitter space for the bipartite system of Alice and Bob who initially share an entangled state between the two modes of a free massive scalar field. It is shown that the space-curvature effect can produce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Shu-Min Wu , Chun-Xu Wang , Dan-Dan Liu , Xiao-Li Huang , Hao-Sheng Zeng

We investigate the fate of initial entanglement between two accelerated detectors with respect to an observer attached to one of the detectors. Both $(1+1)$ and $(1+3)$ spacetime dimensions are being considered here, with the detectors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Pratyusha Chowdhury , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Quantum coherence as the fundamental characteristic of quantum physics, provides the valuable resource for quantum computation in exceeding the power of classical algorithms. The exploration of quantum coherence in relativistic systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Xu Chen , Chunfeng Wu , Hong-Yi Su , Chang-Liang Ren , Jing-Ling Chen

We study entanglement harvesting in general $d$-dimensional conformal field theories using pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to scalar primary operators. This extends standard harvesting protocols beyond free fields to interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Kelly Wurtz , Caroline Lima , Robert C. Myers , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Applying the techniques of light-front quantization to quantize a scalar field in a monochromatic gravitational wave background, we manage to investigate the response of the Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a scalar field in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

We consider a $\lambda \phi^4$ theory in Minkowski spacetime. We compute a "coarse grained effective action" by integrating out the field modes with wavelength shorter than a critical value. From this effective action we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fernando Lombardo , Francisco Mazzitelli

Unruh-DeWitt Hamiltonian couples a scalar field with a two-level atom serving as a particle detector model. Two such detectors held by different observers following general trajectories can be used to study entanglement behavior in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-08 Kamil Bradler

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

Quantum coherence, a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics, plays a crucial role in various quantum information tasks. However, preserving coherence under extreme conditions, such as relativistic acceleration, poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Hong-Wei Li , Yi-Hao Fan , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du

The late time limit of the power spectrum for heavy (principal series) fields in de Sitter space yields a series of polynomial terms with complex scaling dimensions. Such scaling behavior is expected to result from an associated operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green , Yiwen Huang

We study the Kondo effect in quantum dots in an out-of-equilibrium state due to an applied dc-voltage bias. Using the method of infinitesimal unitary transformations (flow equations), we develop a perturbative scaling picture that naturally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-22 Stefan Kehrein

This article investigates the Schwinger effect for fermions with background electric and magnetic fields of constant strengths from the point of view of a uniformly accelerated or the Rindler observer. The Dirac equation is solved in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Shagun Kaushal

We study the time evolution of a conformal field theory deformed by a relevant operator under a smooth but fast quantum quench which brings it to the conformal point. We argue that when the quench time scale $\delta t$ is small compared to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-05 Sumit R. Das , Damian A. Galante , Robert C. Myers

A detector undergoing a huge acceleration measures a thermal distribution with the Unruh temperature out of the Minkowski vacuum. Though such huge accelerations occur naturally in astrophysics and gravity, one may design untraintense laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-08 Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

Quantisation of Lorentz invariant scalar field theory in Doplicher-Fredenhagen-Roberts (DFR) space-time, a Lorentz invariant, non-commutative space-time is studied. Absence of a unique Lagrangian in non-commutative space-time necessitates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-11 E. Harikumar , Vishnu Rajagopal

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 explore entanglement harvesting using two Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors linearly coupled to the scalar density of a massless spin-1/2 field in 1+1 Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider different vacua, including the Boulware,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Nitesh Kumar Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

We study the thermalization of smeared particle detectors that couple locally to $any$ operator in a quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. We show that if the field state satisfies the KMS condition with inverse temperature $\beta$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 T. Rick Perche

In this paper we calculate the effect of acceleration on the decay and excitation rates of scalar fields into a final state of arbitrary multiplicity. The analysis is carried out using standard field operators as well as an Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Morgan H. Lynch