Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5495969 | Annals of Physics | 2017 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
The model of Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to the scalar field for finite time is studied. A systematic way of computing finite time corrections in various cases is suggested and nonperturbative effects like thermalization are discussed. It is shown in particular that adiabatic switching off the coupling between the detector and the thermal bath leaves non-vanishing corrections to the detector's levels distribution. Considering the two level detector as an information bearing degree of freedom encoding one bit of information, limits on external work for the detector's (de)coupling in finite time following from the Landauer's bound are formulated.
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Authors
V. Shevchenko,