8 papers
Thermalization from quenching in coupled oscillators
M. Harinarayanan, Karthik Rajeev
We introduce a finite-time protocol that thermalizes a quantum harmonic oscillator, initially in its ground state, without requiring a macroscopic bath. The method uses a second os…
Scattering in strong field QED in a non-null background
Patrick Copinger, James P. Edwards, Karthik Rajeev
We examine scattering amplitudes for an arbitrary number of photons in a class of non-null background electromagnetic fields, studying tree-level and one-loop amplitudes in scalar…
The ABCs of Amplitudes, Bogoliubov and Crossing
Rafael Aoude, Asaad Elkhidir, Anton Ilderton +2
It is now common to describe classical backgrounds involving dynamical black holes with the production of gravitational radiation using the methods of scattering amplitudes. In tha…
Hawking radiation from the double copy
Anton Ilderton, William Lindved, Karthik Rajeev
Gravity and gauge theory are concretely linked by the double copy. Although well-studied at the level of perturbative scattering in vacuum, far less is known about non-perturbative…
Entanglement scaling and dynamics in the Sauter-Schwinger effect
S. Mahesh Chandran, Karthik Rajeev
In quantum field theory, entanglement entropy under spatial bipartitioning serves as a powerful information-theoretic probe of quantum correlations. In this work, we present the fi…
Tunnelling amplitudes and Hawking radiation from worldline QFT
Anton Ilderton, Karthik Rajeev
We compare Hawking radiation in a collapse background with Schwinger pair creation in an electric field. The comparison is driven by the presence of an analogue horizon in the Schw…