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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

A uniformly accelerated charged particle feels the vacuum as thermally excited and fluctuates around the classical trajectory. Then we may expect additional radiation besides the Larmor radiation. It is called Unruh radiation. In this…

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

A particle in a uniformly accelerated motion exhibits Brownian random motions around the classical trajectory due to the coupling to the field vacuum fluctuations. Previous works show that the Brownian random motions satisfy the energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-28 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

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 investigate Brownian motions of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field. The Unruh effect predicts that an observer in an accelerated motion sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited. This addresses the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

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

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

In this paper we analyze the interaction of a uniformly accelerated detector with a quantum field in (3+1)D spacetime, aiming at the issue of how kinematics can render vacuum fluctuations the appearance of thermal radiance in the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We investigate the properties of quantum radiation produced by a uniformly accelerating charged particle undergoing thermal random motions, which originates from the coupling to the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Because…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-18 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

Quantum effects for electrons in a storage ring are studied in a co-moving, accelerated frame. The polarization effect due to spin flip synchrotron radiation is examined by treating the electron as a simple quantum mechanical two-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jon Magne Leinaas

A model detector undergoing constant, infinite-duration acceleration converges to an equilibrium state described by the Hawking-Unruh temperature $T_a=(a/2\pi)(\hbar/c)$. To relate this prediction to experimental observables, a point-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun , G. Torrieri , H. Truran

Acceleration radiation - or Unruh radiation - the thermal radiation observed by an ever accelerating observer or detector, although having similarities to Hawking radiation, so far has proved extremely challenging to observe experimentally.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Brian P. Dolan , Aonghus Hunter-McCabe , Jason Twamley

The electromagnetic radiation emitted by an accelerated charged particle can be described theoretically as the interaction of the charge with the so-called Fulling-Davies-Unruh thermal bath in the coordinate frame co-accelerated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 João P. B. Brito , Luís C. B. Crispino , Atsushi Higuchi

A uniformly accelerated system will get thermally excited due to interactions with the vacuum fluctuations of the quantum fields. This is the Unruh effect. Also a system accelerated in a circular orbit will be heated, but in this case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jon Magne Leinaas

The Unruh effect predicts that an accelerated observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath, but its direct observation requires extreme accelerations beyond current experimental reach. Foundational theory [Olson & Ralph, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhenghao Luo , Yi Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zihan Xie , Zehua Tian , Yiheng Lin

The existence of Davies-Unruh temperature in a uniformly accelerated frame shows that quantum fluctuations of the inertial vacuum state appears as thermal fluctuations in the accelerated frame. Hence thermodynamic experiments cannot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan

In idealized treatments of the Unruh effect, a two-level atom is accelerated in a prescribed classical trajectory through the vacuum of a quantum field -- the Unruh bath -- which causes the atom's internal state to thermalize to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 D. Jaffino Stargen , Vivishek Sudhir

In analyzing the nature of thermal radiance experienced by an accelerated observer (Unruh effect), an eternal black hole (Hawking effect) and in certain types of cosmological expansion, one of us proposed a unifying viewpoint that these can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alpan Raval , B. L. Hu , Don Koks

The Unruh effect is the phenomenon that accelerated observers detect particles even when inertial observers experience the vacuum state. In particular, uniformly accelerated observers are predicted to measure thermal radiation that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Luis C. Barbado , Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Luca Apadula , Časlav Brukner

The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Andre G. S. Landulfo , Stephen A. Fulling , George E. A. Matsas
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