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A state that an inertial observer in Minkowski space perceives to be the vacuum will appear to an accelerating observer to be a thermal bath of radiation. We study the impact of this Davies-Fulling-Unruh noise on communication, particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Kamil Bradler , Patrick Hayden , Prakash Panangaden

We investigate the Unruh effect for a massless scalar field in the two dimensional Minkowski space in the presence of a uniformly accelerated perfect mirror, with the trajectory of the mirror chosen in such a way that the mirror completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-05 Nistor Nicolaevici

A relativistic classical field theory with zero-point radiation involves a vacuum corresponding to a scale-invariant spectrum of random classical radiation in spacetime with the overall constant chosen to give an energy (1/2)\hbar\omega per…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Timothy H. Boyer

Thermal fluctuations of a massive scalar field in the Rindler wedge have been recently obtained. As a by product, the Minkowski vacuum fluctuations seen by a uniformly accelerated observer have been determined and confronted with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Medina

Based on an analogy between diffraction integral formalism of classical field propagation and Feynman path integral approach to quantum field theory, we develop a quantum model for light and radiation in Rindler spacetime. The framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Fujin Wang , Syed Masood , L. G. Wang

This paper investigates the finite-temperature behavior of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) in Rindler vacuum, focusing on the relation between acceleration and thermality in quantum field theory. We illustrate how uniformly accelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-02 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Eric Howard

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

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) developed in Rindler space-time and its thermal properties are analyzed by means of quantum groups approach. The quantum deformation parameter, labelling the unitarily inequivalent representations, turns out to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaetano Lambiase

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

It has been proved in the context of quantum fields in Minkowski spacetime that the vacuum state is a thermal state according to uniformly accelerated observers -- a seminal result known as the Unruh effect. Recent claims, however, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 Cesar A. Uliana Lima , Frederico Brito , José A. Hoyos , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

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 compute the entropy of a Rindler particle-detector (observer) in the presence of a quantum field in the Minkowski vacuum state; due to the Unruh effect, the observer is immersed in a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Brauer , E. Kirchuk , L. Raviola , M. Socolovsky

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

Minkowski vacuum is empty from the perspective of Unruh-Minkowski photons, however, in the Rindler picture, it is filled with entangled pairs of Rindler photons. A ground-state atom uniformly accelerated through Minkowski vacuum can become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Marlan O. Scully , William Unruh

We examine the influence of the dispersion relation on the Unruh effect by Lorentz boosting the phase of Minkowski vacuum fluctuations endowed with an arbitrary dispersion relation. We find that, unlike what happens with a linear dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 F. Hammad , A. Landry , D. Dijamco

We study the radiative process of two entangled two-level atoms uniformly accelerated in a thermal bath, coupled to a massless scalar field. First, using the positive frequency Wightman function from the Minkowski modes with a Rindler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Thermal fluctuations for a massive scalar field in the Rindler wedge are obtained by applying the point-splitting procedure to the zero temperature Feynman propagator in a conical spacetime. Renormalization is implemented by removing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Medina , E. S. Moreira , jr

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

It is well known that the rotational motion does not induce Unruh effect, because the Minkowski vacuum coincides with the vacuum state defined by the pure rotating observers. However, are there Rindler particles carrying orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Zhigang Bu , Liangliang Ji , Baifei Shen

An accelerating Rindler frame in Minkowski spacetime acting for a finite time interval is used to carry a box of particles or waves between two relativistic inertial frames. The finite spatial extent of the box allows treatment of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Timothy H Boyer