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We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the geometric phase acquired by a uniformly accelerated two-level atom undergoing nonunitary evolution due to its coupling to a bath of fluctuating vacuum electromagnetic fields in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

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

We study the locality of the acceleration temperature in the Unruh effect. To this end, we develop a new formalism for the modeling of macroscopic irreversible detectors. In particular, the formalism allows for the derivation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

The Unruh effect predicts a thermal response for an accelerated detector moving through the vacuum. Here we propose an interferometric scheme to observe an analogue of the circular Unruh effect using a localized laser coupled to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 Cisco Gooding , Steffen Biermann , Sebastian Erne , Jorma Louko , William G. Unruh , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Silke Weinfurtner

Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect contains great amount of theoretical importance in various branches of physics. Requirement of very high acceleration hinders its experimental evidence. We put forward an idea to experimentally probe this effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Dipankar Barman , Debasish Ghosh , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We present simple arguments that detectors moving with constant acceleration (even acceleration for a finite time) should detect particles. The effect is seen to be universal. Moreover, detectors undergoing linear acceleration and uniform,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil T. Akhmedov , Douglas Singleton

We propose a method for simulating an Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled to a 1+1-dimensional massless scalar field, with a suitably-engineered $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinear interaction. In this simulation, the parameter playing the role of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Eugene Adjei , Kevin J. Resch , Agata M. Brańczyk

One of the primary reasons behind the difficulty in observing the Unruh effect is that for achievable acceleration scales the finite temperature effects are significant only for the low frequency modes of the field. Since the density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan

We study Unruh effect for a wide class of non local theories. Using the approach of Bogoliubov coefficents we show that Unruh effect remains entirely unmodified in these theories. However, for those non local theories which incorporate a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Nirmalya Kajuri

Using nonperturbative results obtained recently for an uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector, we discover new features in the dynamical evolution of the detector's internal degree of freedom, and identified the Unruh effect derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We investigate the transition of a two-level atom as the Unruh-Dewitt detector accelerated in the electromagnetic field in this paper. The enhancement of the transition probability is found for different field states under the conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

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 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

We calculate the trajectories which maximize the Unruh effect, mode by mode, when given a fixed energy budget for acceleration. We find that Unruh processes are most likely to occur, and therefore potentially best observable, for certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-20 Aida Ahmadzadegan , Achim Kempf

We show how the use of entanglement can enhance the precision of the detection of the Unruh effect with an accelerated probe. We use the Unruh-DeWitt model of a two-level atom interacting relativistically with a quantum field and treat the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing , Andrzej Dragan

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 consider two-level detectors coupled to a scalar field and moving on arbitrary trajectories in Minkowski space-time. We first derive a generic expression for the response function using a (novel) regularization procedure based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Obadia , M. Milgrom

The Unruh effect is a surprising prediction of quantum field theory that asserts accelerating observers perceive a thermal spectrum of particles with a temperature proportional to their acceleration. However, it has recently been shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Laura J. Henderson , Robie A. Hennigar , Robert B. Mann , Alexander R. H. Smith , Jialin Zhang

The Unruh effect refers to the thermal fluctuations a detector experiences while undergoing linear motion with uniform acceleration in a Minkowski vacuum. This thermality can be demonstrated by tracing the vacuum state of the field over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Jason Doukas , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu , Robert B. Mann

It is found that the Unruh effect can not only arise out of the entanglement between two sets of modes spanning the left and right Rindler wedges, but also between modes spanning the future and past light cones. Furthermore, an inertial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing