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We propose to simulate a Dirac field near an event horizon using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Such a quantum simulator allows for the observation of the celebrated Unruh effect. Our proposal involves three stages: (1) preparation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-01 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Leticia Tarruell , Maciej Lewenstein , Alessio Celi

A detector undergoing a huge acceleration measures a thermal distribution with the Unruh temperature out of the Minkowski vacuum. Though such huge accelerations occur naturally in astrophysics and gravity, one may design untraintense laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-08 Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

We revisit the Unruh effect to investigate how finite acceleration would affect a scalar condensate. We discuss a negative thermal-like correction associated with acceleration. From the correspondence between thermo-field dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Sanjin Benic , Kenji Fukushima

The initial entanglement shared between inertial and accelerated observers degrades due to the influence of the Unruh effect. Here, we show that the Unruh effect can be completely eliminated by the technique of partial measurement. The lost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xing Xiao , Ying-Mao Xie , Yao Yao , Yan-Ling Li , Jieci Wang

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

In this work we consider the ontological status of the Unruh effect. Is it just a formal mathematical result? Or the temperature detected by an accelerating observer can lead to real physical effects such as phase transition. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-17 Antonio Dobado

We show that massive particles created in a relativistically accelerated reference frame, as predicted by the Unruh effect, can only be found in a tiny layer above the event horizon, whose thickness corresponds to a single Compton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Filip Kiałka , Alexander R. H. Smith , Mehdi Ahmadi , Andrzej Dragan

Detecting the Unruh effect is a major challenge in fundamental physics. It is known that exciting massive fields with the Unruh thermal bath is heavily suppressed when the field's rest energy is much larger than the acceleration energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Vladimir Toussaint

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 quantify the quantum correlations between two accelerated detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cavity. It has been realized that an accelerated detector will experience a thermal bath, which is termed the Unruh effect. We examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 He Wang , Jin Wang

This paper proposes a novel quantum effect wherein particle spectra show extra broadening due to local short-time acceleration (as well as in a deSitter spacetime background). This effect provides a simple interpretation for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 M. J. Luo

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 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

Applications of Unruh-Fulling (UF) effect are well studied in literature via the interaction of Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector and {\it single} scalar field. In this work, we investigate a toy model, where the detector is interacting {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

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

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

Due to the Unruh effect, accelerated and inertial observers differ in their description of a given quantum state. The implications of this effect are explored for the entropy assigned by such observers to localized objects that may cross…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald Marolf , Djordje Minic , Simon Ross

We present a method for relating the transition rate of an accelerated Unruh-deWitt detector to the rate of the same detector when stationary in Minkowski space. Furthermore, we show that when using the detector as a model for decay, its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Wim Beenakker , David Venhoek

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

The Unruh effect is the prediction that an accelerating object perceives its surroundings as a bath of thermal radiation even if it accelerates in vacuum. The Unruh effect is believed to be very difficult to observe in the experiment, since…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-23 I. I. Smolyaninov