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We have shown the classical correspondence of Unruh effect in the classical relativistic electron theory in our previous work (gr-qc/0105051). Here we demonstrate the analogy between the classical relativistic electron theory and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shih-Yuin Lin

We investigate the transition probability of a Unruh-deWitt particle detector evolving in flat space and in a wormhole spacetime, in various scenarios. In Minkowski space, we look at the response of the detector on trajectories having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 Robert Blaga

Since quantum field theories do not possess proper position observables, Unruh-DeWitt detector models serve as a key theoretical tool for extracting localized spatio-temporal information from quantum fields. Most studies have been limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Daniel Hümmer , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

One of the primary reasons behind the difficulty in observing the Unruh effect is that for achievable acceleration scales the finite temperature effects are significant only for the low frequency modes of the field. Since the density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan

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

We treat an Unruh-DeWitt detector as an open quantum system and evaluate the response of a uniformly accelerated detector: (i) interacting locally with the derivatives of a massless scalar field and (ii) linearly coupled to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 Dimitris Moustos

In this work, we investigate the interaction between a uniformly accelerated single qubit and a fermionic spinor field. Here we consider both the massless and the massive fermionic spinor fields. The qubit-field interaction occurs over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , P. H. M. Barros , H. A. S. Costa

Applications of Unruh-Fulling (UF) effect are well studied in literature via the interaction of Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector and {\it single} scalar field. In this work, we investigate a toy model, where the detector is interacting {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime, within first-order perturbation theory. We first obtain a causal and manifestly regular expression for the instantaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

We investigate the entanglement generation or harvesting between two identical, comoving Unruh-DeWitt detectors in the cosmological de Sitter spacetime. The detectors are assumed to be unentangled initially. They are individually coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Shagun Kaushal , Sourav Bhattacharya

In this paper we analyze an exactly solvable model consisting of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector which interacts linearly with a massless quantum field in Minkowski spacetime with a perfectly reflecting flat plane boundary. Firstly a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rong Zhou , Ryan O. Behunin , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We propose a realizable experiment to test the response of a particle detector prepared in a superposition of locations interacting with a relativistic quantum field. Using a beamsplitter to prepare two superposed branches of a modulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Cisco Gooding , Taylor Cey , Robert Mann

We study a uniformly accelerated detector coupled to a massless scalar field for a finite time interval. By considering the detector initially prepared in a superposition state, qubit state, we find that the acceleration induces decoherence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Helder A. S. Costa

We derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix of a uniformly accelerating quantum detector in arbitrary dimensions, generically coupled to a field initially in its vacuum state, and analyze its late time regime. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Julio Arrechea , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

In this work we continue the systematic study of observable effects emerging from modified dispersion relations. We study the motion of test particles subject to a general first order modification of the general relativistic dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-01 Dagmar Läänemets , Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer

Unruh deWitt detectors are important constructs in studying the dynamics of quantum fields in any geometric background. Curvature also plays an important role in setting up the correlations of a quantum field in a given spacetime. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Ankit Dhanuka , Kinjalk Lochan

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

Vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields provide an unavoidable environment for any quantum system coupled to it. We study the interplay between boundary conditions and acceleration in determining decoherence of a two-level Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Shagun Kaushal , Kinjalk Lochan

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime. We first obtain a regulator-free expression for the transition probability in an arbitrary Hadamard state, working within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko