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Decoherence of the Radiation from an Accelerated Quantum Source
摘要： Decoherence is the process via which quantum superposition states are reduced to classical mixtures. Decoherence has been predicted for relativistically accelerated quantum systems; however, examples to date have involved restricting the detected field modes to particular regions of space-time. If the global state over all space-time is measured, then unitarity returns and the decoherence is removed. Here, we study a decoherence effect associated with accelerated systems that cannot be explained in this way. In particular, we study a uniformly accelerated source of a quantum field state—a single-mode squeezer. Even though the initial state of the field is vacuum (a pure state) and the interaction with the quantum source in the accelerated frame is unitary, we find that the final state detected by inertial observers appears to be decohered, i.e., in a mixed state. This unexpected result may indicate new directions in resolving inconsistencies between relativity and quantum theory. We extend this result to a two-mode state and find that entanglement is also decohered.
关键词： Unruh Effect,Quantum Field Theory,Accelerated Systems,Decoherence,Quantum Source
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Harvesting correlations from thermal and squeezed coherent states
摘要： We study the harvesting of entanglement and mutual information by Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors from thermal and squeezed coherent field states. We prove (for arbitrary spatial dimensions, switching profiles and detector smearings) that while the entanglement harvesting ability of detectors decreases monotonically with the field temperature T, harvested mutual information grows linearly with T. We also show that entanglement harvesting from a general squeezed coherent state is independent of the coherent amplitude, but depends strongly on the squeezing amplitude. Moreover, we find that highly squeezed states (i) allow for detectors to harvest much more entanglement than from the vacuum, and (ii) ensure that the entanglement harvested does not decay with their spatial separation. Finally, we analyze the spatial inhomogeneity of squeezed states and its influence on harvesting, and investigate how much entanglement one can actually extract from squeezed states when the squeezing is bandlimited.
关键词： Unruh-DeWitt detectors,thermal states,entanglement harvesting,quantum field theory,squeezed coherent states,mutual information
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Unruh-DeWitt detectors as mirrors: Dynamical reflectivity and Casimir effect
摘要： We demonstrate that the Unruh-DeWitt harmonic-oscillator detectors in (1 t 1) dimensions derivative-coupled with a massless scalar field can mimic the atom mirrors in free space. Without introducing the Dirichlet boundary condition to the field, the reflectivity of our detector or atom mirror is dynamically determined by the interaction of the detector’s internal oscillator and the field. When the oscillator-field coupling is strong, a broad frequency range of the quantum field can be mostly reflected by the detector mirror at late times. Constructing a cavity model with two such detector mirrors, we can see how the quantum field inside the cavity evolves from a continuous to a quasidiscrete spectrum which gives a negative Casimir energy density at late times. In our numerical calculations, the Casimir energy density in the cavity does not converge until the UV cutoff is sufficiently large, with which the two internal oscillators are always separable.
关键词： Unruh-DeWitt detectors,atom mirrors,Casimir effect,reflectivity,quantum field theory
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14