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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…
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The approach based on the generalized Kirchhoff's law for calculating photoluminescence (PL) spectra of one-dimensional (1D) multi-layered structures, in particular, 1D photonic crystals has been developed. It is valid in the local…
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