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We study the collective dynamics of accelerated atoms interacting with a massless field via an Unruh-deWitt-type interaction. We first derive a general Hamiltonian describing such a system and then, employing a Markovian master equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Benedikt Richter , Hugo Terças , Yasser Omar , Inés de Vega

We identify the relativistic-fluid counterpart of the Unruh effect, in which a comoving probe measures a Thermodynamic Unruh temperature. Frame changes in first-order hydrodynamics are recast as a local, time-dependent hyperbolic rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Eren Erberk Erkul

We study the Anti-Unruh effect in general stationary scenarios. We find that, for accelerated trajectories, a particle detector coupled to a KMS state of a quantum field can cool down (click less often) as the KMS temperature increases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon

It is shown that accelerated projective measurements on the vacuum of a free Dirac spinor field results in an entangled state for an inertial observer. The physical mechanism at work is the Davies-Unruh effect. The produced state is always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 David C. M. Ostapchuk , Robert B. Mann

We give a complete and rigorous proof of the Unruh effect, in the following form. We show that the state of a two-level system, uniformly accelerated with proper acceleration $a$, and coupled to a scalar bose field initially in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. De Bievre , M. Merkli

The Unruh effect predicts an astonishing phenomenon that an accelerated detector would detect counts despite being in a quantum field vacuum in the rest frame. Since the required detector acceleration for its direct observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xu Cheng , Yue Li , Zehua Tian , Xingyu Zhao , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin

Through the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study a uniformly accelerated quark in the vacuum of strongly-coupled conformal field theories in various dimensions, and determine the resulting stochastic fluctuations of the quark trajectory. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-24 Elena Caceres , Mariano Chernicoff , Alberto Guijosa , Juan F. Pedraza

We analyze whether a pair of neutral two level atoms can become entangled in a finite time while they remain causally disconnected. The interaction with the e. m. field is treated perturbatively in the electric dipole approximation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan León , Carlos Sabín

We investigate the connection between the classical Larmor formula and the quantum Unruh effect by computing the emitted power by a uniformly accelerated charged particle and its angular distribution in the coaccelerated frame. We consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Georgios Vacalis , Atsushi Higuchi , Robert Bingham , Gianluca Gregori

We show how the entanglement of two atoms, trapped in distant separate cavities, can be generated with arbitrarily high probability of success. The scheme proposed employs sudden excitation of the atoms proving that the weakly driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Grzegorz Chimczak

How long does a uniformly accelerated observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to record thermality in the Unruh temperature? We address this question for a pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

The ability to create and harness entanglement is crucial to the fields of quantum sensing and simulation, and ultracold atom-cavity systems offer pristine platforms for this undertaking. Here, we present a method for creating and…

In this study, we investigate the signature of the Unruh effect in quantum radiation from an accelerated charged particle interacting with vacuum fluctuations. Because a charged particle in uniformly accelerated motion exhibits thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

We study the response of a uniformly accelerated detector modeled by a two-level atom nonlinearly coupled to vacuum massless Rarita-Schwinger fields. We first generalize the formalism developed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Qinglin Li , Hongwei Yu , Wenting Zhou

We study the estimation of parameters in a quantum metrology scheme based on entangled many-body Unruh-DeWitt detectors. It is found that the precision for the estimation of Unruh effect can be enhanced via initial state preparations and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Jieci Wang , Li Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We consider a multilevel hydrogen atom in interaction with the quantum electromagnetic field and separately calculate the contributions of the vacuum fluctuation and radiation reaction to the rate of change of the mean atomic energy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhiying Zhu , Hongwei Yu , Shizhuan Lu

We study two two-level atomic quantum systems (qubits) placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding walls. While at thermal equilibrium the two-qubit dynamics is characterized by not entangled steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Bruno Bellomo , Mauro Antezza

We show that the Unruh effect can create net quantum entanglement between inertial and accelerated observers depending on the choice of the inertial state. This striking result banishes the extended belief that the Unruh effect can only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 M. Montero , E. Martin-Martinez

If the boundary conditions of the quantum vacuum are changed in time, quantum field theory predicts that real, observable particles can be created in the initially empty modes. Here, we realize this effect by changing the boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 K. Lange , J. Peise , B. Lücke , T. Gruber , A. Sala , A. Polls , W. Ertmer , B. Juliá-Díaz , L. Santos , C. Klempt

We show that uniformly accelerated detectors can display genuinely thermal features even if the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition fails to hold. These features include satisfying thermal detailed balance and having a Planckian response…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Raul Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon