Spatially extended Unruh-DeWitt detectors for relativistic quantum information

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.89.085041arXiv1211.5261MaRDI QIDQ6237384FDOQ6237384

Authors: Antony R. Lee, Ivette Fuentes 

Publication date: 22 November 2012

Abstract: Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting locally with a quantum field are systems under consideration for relativistic quantum information processing. In most works, the detectors are assumed to be point-like and, therefore, couple with the same strength to all modes of the field spectrum. We propose the use of a more realistic detector model where the detector has a finite size conveniently tailored by a spatial profile. We design a spatial profile such that the detector, when inertial, naturally couples to a peaked distribution of Minkowski modes. In the uniformly accelerated case, the detector couples to a peaked distribution of Rindler modes. Such distributions are of special interest in the analysis of entanglement in non-inetial frames. We use our detector model to show the noise detected in the Minkowski vacuum and in single particle states is a function of the detector's acceleration.

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