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When ground state atoms are accelerated through a high Q microwave cavity, radiation is produced with an intensity which can exceed the intensity of Unruh acceleration radiation in free space by many orders of magnitude. The cavity field at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marlan O. Scully , Vitaly V. Kocharovsky , Alexey Belyanin , Edward Fry , Federico Capasso

We investigate the phenomenon of quantum radiation - i.e. the conversion of (virtual) quantum fluctuations into (real) particles induced by dynamical external conditions - for an initial thermal equilibrium state. For a resonantly vibrating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Schützhold , Günter Plunien , Gerhard Soff

We put forward a physical model of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and use quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect in a high dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By means of the open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Yan Chen , Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Xiang Hao

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 interpretation of quark ($q$)- antiquark ($\bar q$) pairs production and the sequential string breaking as tunneling through the event horizon of colour confinement leads to a thermal hadronic spectrum with a universal Unruh…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 P. Castorina , H. Satz

We study quantum radiation emitted during the collapse of a quantized, gravitating, spherical domain wall. The amount of radiation emitted during collapse now depends on the wavefunction of the collapsing wall and the background spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tanmay Vachaspati , Dejan Stojkovic

We point out that neutrino oscillations imply an ambiguity in the definition of the vacuum and the coupling to gravity, with experimentally observable consequences due to the Unruh effect. In an accelerating frame, the detector should see a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Dharam Vir Ahluwalia , Lance Labun , Giorgio Torrieri

We study the dynamics of quantum coherence under Unruh thermal noise and seek under which condition the coherence can be frozen in a relativistic setting. We find that the frozen condition is either (i) the initial state is prepared as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

The particle definition varies across different theories. The quantum field theory in curved spacetime shows that from the perspective of a linearly accelerated observer, an inertial empty space may be full of thermal particles. This effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan , Lixiang Chen

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

In this note, the non-relativistic Doppler spectrum of the Unruh radiation from an accelerating mass is determined. Additionally, the scattering of thermal bath photons off an accelerating electron in an electromagnetic field, as seen by a…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Jeff S. Lee , Gerald B. Cleaver , Felix Yu

We discuss the random motion of charged test particles driven by quantum electromagnetic fluctuations at finite temperature in both the unbounded flat space and flat spacetime with a reflecting boundary and calculate the mean squared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongwei Yu , Jun Chen , Puxun Wu

We investigate the quantum field theory of a Lorentz non-invariant model with a massive nonlinear dispersion relation in Minkowski space. The model involves some non-causal signals in the form of wave packets propagating with super-luminal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-30 R. Rashidi , N. Khosravi , E. Khajeh , H. Salehi

Quantum channel discrimination is used to test quantum field theory in non-inertial frames. We search for optimal strategies which can best see the thermality of the Unruh effect. We find that the usual strategy of counting particles in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Jason Doukas , Gerardo Adesso , Stefano Pirandola , Andrzej Dragan

First order corrections to the Unruh effect are calculated from a model of an accelerated particle detector of finite mass. We show that quantum smearing of the trajectory and large recoil essentially do not modify the Unruh effect.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 B. Reznik

We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Yuki Osawa , Yasusada Nambu

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

The Unruh effect predicts that a uniformly accelerating observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath, yet direct observation remains elusive [1]. We simulate Unruh radiation in realistic high-intensity laser-electron collisions relevant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-10 Rafi Hessami , Haidar Al-Naseri , Monika Yadav , Maanas Hemanth Oruganti , Brian Naranjo , James Rosenzweig

One of the most fascinating aspects of quantum fields in curved spacetime is the Unruh effect. The direct experimental detection of Unruh temperature has remained an elusive challenge up to now. Gradient optical waveguides manipulating the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Hui Ge , Chong Sheng , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

We address the problem of the electromagnetic radiation produced by charge distributions in the framework of a semiclassical approach proposed in the work by Bagrov, Gitman, Shishmarev and Farias [J. Synchrotron Rad. (2020). 27, 902-911].…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. C. Adorno , A. I. Breev , A. J. D. Farias , D. M. Gitman