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We study a dynamic version of the Unruh effect in a two dimensional collapse model forming a black hole. In this two-dimensional collapse model a scalar field coupled to the dilaton gravity, moving leftwards, collapses to form a black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Kinjalk Lochan , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

The Unruh effect remains a central topic in quantum field theory, although its direct experimental verification continues to be challenging. Recent efforts have therefore focused on indirect detection strategies in which the Unruh effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Manuel de Atocha Rodríguez Fernández , Alexander I. Nesterov , Gennady P. Berman , C. Moreno-González

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

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 --

The Unruh effect, predicting a thermal reservoir for accelerating systems, calls for a more refined understanding of measurement processes involving quantum systems as thermometers. Conventional models fail to account for the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 M. Cardi , P. Solinas , N. Zanghì

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

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

In pursuit of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, operational approaches offer insights into quantum-gravitational effects produced by quantum superposition of different spacetimes not diffeomorphic to one another. Recent work applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Lakshay Goel , Everett A. Patterson , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Mahdi Torabian , Robert B. Mann , Niayesh Afshordi

In the lack of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, I consider free, scalar, quantum fields on curved spacetimes to gain insight into the interaction between quantum and gravitational phenomena. I employ the Unruh-DeWitt detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-21 Lissa de Souza Campos

I review several different calculations, coming from string theory, nonperturbative quantum gravity and analyses of black holes that lead to predictions of phenomena that would uniquely be signatures of quantum gravitational effects. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Lee Smolin

Quantum uncertainty is deeply linked to quantum correlations and relativistic motion. The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum memory offers a powerful way to study how shared entanglement affects measurement precision. However, under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ming-Ming Du , Hong-Wei Li , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Lan Zhou , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

We study the detailed balance temperatures recorded along all classes of stationary, uniformly accelerated worldlines in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, namely along (i) linear uniform acceleration, (ii) cusped, (iii) circular, (iv)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Michael Good , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Dimitris Moustos , Maksat Temirkhan

A great deal of evidence has been mounting over the years showing a deep connection between acceleration, radiation, and the Unruh effect. Indeed, the fact that the Unruh effect can be codified in the Larmor radiation emitted by the charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Felipe Portales-Oliva , André G. S. Landulfo

Utilizing quantum coherence monotone, we reexamine the thermal nature of the Unruh effect of an accelerating detector. We consider an UDW detector coupling to a n-dimensional conformal field in Minkowski spacetime, whose response spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-20 Jun Feng , Jing-Jun Zhang , Yihao Zhou

We calculate the radiation resulting from the Unruh effect for strongly accelerated electrons and show that the photons are created in pairs whose polarizations are maximally entangled. Apart from the photon statistics, this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralf Schützhold , Gernot Schaller , Dietrich Habs

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 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 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 here conjecture that two much-studied aspects of quantum gravity, dimensional flow and spacetime fuzziness, might be deeply connected. We illustrate the mechanism, providing first evidence in support of our conjecture, by working within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco