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We construct a Dirac equation that is consistent with one of the recently-proposed schemes for a "doubly-special relativity", a relativity with both an observer-independent velocity scale (still naturally identified with the speed-of-light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandra Agostini , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Michele Arzano

This study of gauge field theories on kappa-deformed Minkowski spacetime extends previous work on field theories on this example of a noncommutative spacetime. We construct deformed gauge theories for arbitrary compact Lie groups using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marija Dimitrijevic , Frank Meyer , Lutz Möller , Julius Wess

We study the phenomenon of Unruh effect in a massless scalar field theory quantized on the light-front in the general light-front frame. We determine the uniformly accelerating coordinates in such a frame and through a direct transformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ashok Das , J. Frenkel , Silvana Perez

We review some quantum electrodynamical effects related to the uniform acceleration of atoms in vacuum. After discussing the energy level shifts of a uniformly accelerated atom in vacuum, we investigate the atom-wall Casimir-Polder force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Jamir Marino , Antonio Noto , Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Salvatore Spagnolo

The relevance of the strain-induced Dirac point shift to obtain the appropriate anisotropic Fermi velocity of strained graphene is demonstrated. Then a critical revision of the available effective Dirac Hamiltonians is made by studying in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 M. Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo G. Naumis

We will briefly describe how to build a field theory of a complex scalar field in the $\kappa$-Minkowski spacetime. After introducing the action, we will shortly describe its properties under both continuous and deformed symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Andrea Bevilacqua

The Unruh effect states an accelerated particle detector registers a thermal response when moving through the Minkowski vacuum, and its thermal feature is believed to be inseparable from Lorentz symmetry: Without the latter, the former…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Zehua Tian , Longhao Wu , Liang Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Jiangfeng Du

We initiate an investigation into features of vacuum entanglement as probed by accelerated quantum probes in curved spacetime. Focussing specifically on de Sitter (dS) spacetime with curvature $\Lambda$, we obtain several exact results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mayank , K. Hari , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala

We consider the response of an Unruh detector to scalar fields in an expanding space-time. When combining transition elements of the scalar field Hamiltonian with the interaction operator of detector and field, one finds at second order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

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

It was suggested by Unruh that a uniformly accelerated detector in vacuum would perceive a noise with a thermal distribution. We obtain a representation of solutions of the wave equation in two dimensions suitable for the Rindler regions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-28 I. Ya. Aref'eva , I. V. Volovich

We investigate the structure of time-ordered perturbative expansions in quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime, focusing on the interaction between a scalar field and multiple Unruh-DeWitt detectors undergoing uniform acceleration.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Arash Azizi

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

We explore the quantum coherence between a pair of entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors, interacting with a quantum field, using a nonperturbative approach in a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Wentao Liu

In this paper, we investigate the quantum correlations and coherence of two accelerating Unruh-deWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in 3 + 1 Minkowski space-time. We show that the entanglement is completely destroyed in the limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Muthuganesan , R. Radha

In this paper we analyze the invariance of the Dirac equation under disformal transformations depending on the propagating spinor field. Using the Weyl-Cartan formalism, we construct a large class of disformal maps between different metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Eduardo Bittencourt , Iarley P. Lobo , Gabriel G. Carvalho

We study the influence of the thermal background on the existence of the anti-Unruh effect. For the massless scalar field, we present that the anti-Unruh effect can appear when the detector is accelerated in the thermal field, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

The particle detector model consisting of a harmonic oscillator coupled to a scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions is investigated in the inertial case. The same approach is then used in the accelerating case. The absence of radiation from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Massar , R. Parentani , R. Brout

Modulated accelerating mirrors provide a concrete dynamical origin for the $\kappa\gamma$ vacuum-a thermal, single-mode squeezed state with a tunable angle. The Carlitz-Willey trajectory fixes the Planckian weights (set by $\kappa$), while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Arash Azizi

We generalise the entropic force description of gravity into $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time and derive the $\kappa$-deformed corrections to the Newton's gravitational force. Using this we show the appearance of logarithmic correction as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Vishnu Rajagopal , Puxun Wu