Velocity effects slightly mitigating the quantumness degradation of an Unruh-DeWitt detector

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01280v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:01:24 GMT
• Title: Velocity effects slightly mitigating the quantumness degradation of an Unruh-DeWitt detector
• Authors: P. H. M. Barros, Shu-Min Wu, C. A. S. Almeida, H. A. S. Costa,
• Abstract summary: This work investigates the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems.<n>The quantum systems studied were: accelerated single-qubit, quantum interferometric circuit, and which-path distinguishability circuit.<n>Results show that the addition of the non-relativistic, transverse and constant motion of an accelerated detector can play a protective role in quantumness in systems at high accelerations.
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• Abstract: 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 two-dimensional plane. The quantum systems studied were: accelerated single-qubit, quantum interferometric circuit, and which-path distinguishability circuit. Thus, for non-relativistic velocity regime, we obtained analytical expressions such as transition rates, quantum coherence, visibility, distinguishability, and the complementarity relation. On the other hand, for the ultra-relativistic velocity regime, we saw that the Unruh effect is suppressed and therefore the detector does not respond in this case. Our findings revealed that velocity effects imply mitigation of information degradation, this interesting behaviors happen because of the composite effect of both velocity and acceleration. The results obtained show that the addition of the non-relativistic, transverse and constant motion of an accelerated detector can play a protective role in quantumness in systems at high accelerations, although the effects are very small.

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