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We study the impact of a minimal length, implied by generalized uncertainty principles and quantum gravity models, on unbounded (scattering) trajectories in the Kepler problem. The analysis is based on the precession of the Hamilton vector,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Mykola Samar , Mariia Seniak

We investigate the fate of initial entanglement between two accelerated detectors with respect to an observer attached to one of the detectors. Both $(1+1)$ and $(1+3)$ spacetime dimensions are being considered here, with the detectors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Pratyusha Chowdhury , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study the motion of a test particle in a stationary, axially and reflection symmetric spacetime of a central compact object, as affected by interaction with a test radiation field of the same symmetries. Considering the radiation flux…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Oldrich Semerák , Luigi Stella

In a seminal paper, Unruh and Wald found that the detection of a right Rindler particle by a linearly uniformly accelerated detector coupled to a Klein-Gordon field in the Minkowski vacuum leads to the creation of a Minkowski particle from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Angel Garcia-Chung , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Daniel Sudarsky

We investigate the decoherence of an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinor fields in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By employing the Schwinger-Keldysh influence functional formalism, we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Ran Li , Zhong-Xiao Man , Jin Wang

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 will study the splitting in the energy spectrum of the hydrogen atom subjected to a uniform electric field (Stark effect) with the Heisenberg algebra deformed leading to the minimum length. We will use the perturbation theory for cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 H. L. C. Louzada , H. Belich

Mixing transformations for a uniformly accelerated observer (Rindler observer) are analyzed within the quantum field theory framework as a basis for investigating gravitational effects on flavor oscillations. In particular, the case of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Massimo Blasone , Gaetano Lambiase , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

The canonical approach to quantizing quantum gravity is understood to suffer from pathological non-renomalizability. Nevertheless in the context of effective field theory, a viable perturbative approach to calculating elementary processes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Philip Tee , Nosratollah Jafari

In this paper it is explicitly demonstrated that the energy conservation law is kept when a detector uniformly accelerated in the Minkowski vacuum is excited and emits a particle. This fact had been hidden in conventional approaches in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Riuji Mochizuki , Takayuki Suga

We study an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector that is coupled to the proper time derivative of a real scalar field in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. Working within first-order perturbation theory, we cast the transition probability into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

We discuss radiation in theories with scalar fields. Our key observation is that even in flat spacetime, the radiative fields depend qualitatively on the coupling of the scalar field to the Ricci scalar: for non-minimally coupled scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Bartomeu Fiol , Jairo Martínez-Montoya

We present a first-quantized treatment of the back reaction on an accelerated particle detector. The accelerated detector is described as a first quantized, charged, pointlike particle in a constant field with internal energy levels. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Reznik

The propagator of a scalar field on a stationary slowly varying in space gravitational background is derived retaining only the second derivatives of the metric. The corresponding one-loop effective action is constructed. The propagator and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-13 P. O. Kazinski

We consider a particle detector model on 1+1-dimensional Minkowski space-time that is accelerated by a constant external acceleration a. The detector is coupled to a massless scalar test field. Due to the Unruh effect, this detector becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Franz Thoma

We study memory effects as information backflow for an accelerating two-level detector weakly interacting with a scalar field in the Minkowski vacuum. This is the framework of the well-known Unruh effect: the detector behaves as if it were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Boris Sokolov , Jorma Louko , Sabrina Maniscalco , Iiro Vilja

When analyzing the perception of Hawking radiation by different observers, the Hawking effect becomes mixed with the Unruh effect. The separation of both effects is not always clear in the literature. Here we propose an inconsistency-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Luis C. Barbado , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gil Jannes

We investigate the weak decay of uniformly {\em accelerated protons} in the context of {\em standard} Quantum Field Theory. Because the mean {\em proper} lifetime of a particle is a scalar, the same value for this observable must be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Daniel A. T. Vanzella , George E. A. Matsas

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector that is coupled linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field in Minkowski spacetimes of dimension $d\ge2$ and on the static Minkowski cylinder in spacetime dimension two, allowing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-20 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint