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In this paper, we study a free scalar field in a specific (1+1)-dimensional curved spacetime. By introducing an algebraic state that is locally Hadamard, we derive the renormalized Wightman function and explicitly calculate the covariantly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Jeongwon Ho , O-Kab Kwon , Sang-Heon Yi

The relative entropy between very high energy localized excitations and the vacuum, where both states are reduced to a spatial region, gives place to a precise definition of a local temperature produced by vacuum entanglement across the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Raul Arias , Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta , Diego Pontello

Generators of spacetime translations and Lorentz group transformations form the Lie algebra of the Poincar\'e group and give rise to the Casimir invariants for a specification of elementary particle characteristics. Moreover quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-19 V. V. Khruschov

We elaborate on the proposed general boundary formulation as an extension of standard quantum mechanics to arbitrary (or no) backgrounds. Temporal transition amplitudes are generalized to amplitudes for arbitrary spacetime regions. State…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Robert Oeckl

The search for a relation among GR, QFT and TFT is the toughest challenge of theoretical physics since Hawking's discovery. The emergence of a temperature in spacetimes with an event horizon has unveiled the existence of a fertile…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

We present a method based on the so-called Quantum Energy Inequalities, which allows to compare, and bound, the expectation values of energy-densities of ground states of quantum fields in spacetimes possessing isometric regions. The method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Marecki

Using the Zubarev quantum-statistical density operator, we calculated the corrections to the energy-momentum tensor of a massless fermion gas associated with acceleration. It is shown that when fourth-order corrections are taken into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 George Y. Prokhorov , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

We apply the generalized Abel-Plana formula for the investigation of one-loop quantum effects on manifolds with boundaries. This allows to extract from the vacuum expectation values of local physical observables the parts corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Aram A. Saharian

We demonstrate that the energy density of an accelerated fermion gas evaluated within quantum statistical approach in Minkowski space is related to a quantum correction to the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 George Y. Prokhorov , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

We analyze the role of boundaries in the infrared behavior of quantum field theories. By means of a novel method we calculate the vacuum energy for a massless scalar field confined between two homogeneous parallel plates with the most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-16 M. Asorey , J. M Munoz-Castaneda

The dependence of thermal field theory on the surface of quantization and on the velocity of the heat bath is investigated by working in general coordinates that are arbitrary linear combinations of the Minkowski coordinates. In the general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Arthur Weldon

The Unruh effect predicts that a uniformly accelerated observer perceives the vacuum seen by an inertial observer as a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its proper acceleration. This phenomenon is often regarded as a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

In contrast to recent criticism we undertake to show that the notion of Unruh temperature describes a real thermal property of the vacuum if viewed from an accelerated reference frame. We embed our investigation in a more general analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-08 Manfred Requardt

The Unruh effect--the prediction that an accelerated observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath--remains one of the most profound yet experimentally unverified consequences of quantum field theory. This work analyzes a model for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Vladimir Toussaint --

A long-standing debate on Unruh effect is about its obscure thermal nature. In this Letter, we use quantum Fisher information (QFI) as an effective probe to explore the thermal nature of Unruh effect from both local and global perspectives.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang

We consider quintessence scalar field cosmology in which the Lagrangian of the scalar field is modified by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. We show that the perturbation terms which arise from the deformed algebra are equivalent with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-03 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Supriya Pan , Souvik Pramanik

To comply with the equivalence principle, fields in curved spacetime can be quantized only in the neighborhood of each point, where one can construct a freely falling M i n k o w s k i frame with z e r o curvature. In each such frame, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-02 H. Kleinert

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 Minkowski vacuum state is expressed as an entangled state between the left and right Rindler wedges when it is constructed on the Rindler vacuum. In this paper, we further examine the entanglement structure and extend the expression to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Atsushi Higuchi , Satoshi Iso , Kazushige Ueda , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

This article investigates the Schwinger effect for fermions with background electric and magnetic fields of constant strengths from the point of view of a uniformly accelerated or the Rindler observer. The Dirac equation is solved in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Shagun Kaushal