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We analyze potential violations of causality in Unruh DeWitt-type detector models in relativistic quantum information. We proceed by first studying the relation between faster-than-light signaling and the causal factorization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 José de Ramón , Maria Papageorgiou , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

The Unruh effect is a quantum relativistic effect where the accelerated observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal state. Here we propose the experimental realization of the Unruh effect for interacting ultracold fermions in optical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-17 Arkadiusz Kosior , Maciej Lewenstein , Alessio Celi

The influence functional is derived for a massive scalar field in the ground state, coupled to a uniformly accelerating DeWitt monopole detector in $D+1$ dimensional Minkowski space. This confirms the local nature of the Unruh effect, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. R. Anglin

An extended monopole detector at constant acceleration coupled to a massless scalar field is allowed to evolve quantum mechanically. It is found that while in the classical, followed by the point particle, limit the usual result Unruh…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Roberto Casadio , Giovanni Venturi

We analyse the emergence of the Unruh effect within the context of a field Lagrangian theory associated to the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth order oscillator model. To this end, we introduce a transformation that brings the Hamiltonian bounded from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Jairo Martínez-Montoya , Alberto Molgado

In the Unruh effect an observer with constant acceleration perceives the quantum vacuum as thermal radiation. The Unruh effect has been believed to be a pure quantum phenomenon, but here we show theoretically how the effect arises from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Ulf Leonhardt , Itay Griniasty , Sander Wildeman , Emmanuel Fort , Mathias Fink

We investigate the interaction between a moving detector and a quantum field, especially about how the trajectory of the detector would affect the vacuum fluctuations when the detector is moves in a quantum field (the Unruh effect). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I-Chin Wang

An accelerated particle sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited, which is called the Unruh effect. Due to an interaction with the thermal bath, the particle moves stochastically like the Brownian motion in a heat bath. It has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-24 Satoshi Iso , Yasuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

We find that a uniformly accelerated particle detector coupled to the vacuum can cool down as its acceleration increases, due to relativistic effects. We show that in (1+1)-dimensions, a detector coupled to the scalar field vacuum for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Wilson G. Brenna , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

A way to encode acceleration directly into fields has recently being proposed, thus establishing a new kind of fields, the accelerated fields. The definition of accelerated fields points to the quantization of space and time, analogously to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 Lucas Chibebe Céleri , Vasileios Kiosses

An object moving with the acceleration will change the temperature of environment around it, because of the presence of the Unruh thermal effect. In this work, we investigate the impact of Unruh thermal noise on the quantum-memory-assisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu-Kun Zhang , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We study quantum gravity signatures emerging from phenomenologically motivated multiscale models, spectral actions, and Causal Set Theory within the detector approach to the Unruh effect. We show that while the Unruh temperature is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Natalia Alkofer , Giulio D'Odorico , Frank Saueressig , Fleur Versteegen

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

We propose a scheme to detect the Unruh effect in a circularly rotated Unruh-DeWitt detector enclosed within a cylindrical cavity. This technique relies on the enhanced atomic spontaneous emission rate related to the counter-rotating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Hong-Tao Zheng , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

OPERA collaboration has reported evidence of superluminal phenomenon for neutrinos. One of the possible ways to explain the superluminality is to have Lorentz symmetry violated. It has been shown that dispersion relations put forwards has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Gang Guo , Xiao-Gang He

An uniformly accelerated (Rindler) observer will detect particles in the Minkowski vacuum, known as Unruh effect. The spectrum is thermal and the temperature is given by that of the Killing horizon, which is proportional to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Ananya Adhikari , Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Chandramouli Chowdhury , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We revisit the Unruh effect within a general framework based on direct, probability-level calculations. We rederive the transition rate of a uniformly accelerating Unruh-DeWitt monopole detector coupled to a massive scalar field, from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

These pedagogical notes are dedicated to a derivation of the Unruh effect. There is special emphasis on the transparency of the arguments and the exhibition of detailed calculations. We assume the reader has a basic knowledge of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-16 Ernesto Frodden , Nicolás Valdés

We point out that, when the Unruh-DeWitt detector couples to a scalar primary operator of $d$-dimensional conformal field theory, the detector's power spectrum generally obeys the thermal distribution for $(1+1)$-dimensional anyons.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Satoshi Ohya