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In idealized treatments of the Unruh effect, a two-level atom is accelerated in a prescribed classical trajectory through the vacuum of a quantum field -- the Unruh bath -- which causes the atom's internal state to thermalize to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 D. Jaffino Stargen , Vivishek Sudhir

In this work, the notion of spacetime of maximal proper acceleration is motivated as a weak form to implement general covariance and a generalized form of Einstein's equivalence principle from a physical point of view and the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

Detecting thermal Unruh radiation from accelerated electrons has presented a formidable challenge due not only to technical difficulties but also for lack of conceptual clarity about what is actually seen by a laboratory observer. We give a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Gianluca Gregori , Giacomo Marocco , Subir Sarkar , Robert Bingham , Charles Wang

Building on the well-known Unruh-Davies effect, we examine the effects of projective measurements and quantum communications between accelerated and stationary observers. We find that the projective measurement by a uniformly accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Muxin Han , S. Jay Olson , Jonathan P. Dowling

A new thermalization scenario for heavy ion collisions is discussed. It is based on the Hawking--Unruh effect: an observer moving with an acceleration $a$ experiences the influence of a thermal bath with an effective temperature $T = a /…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Kharzeev

We investigate the Minkowski ground state associated with a real massless scalar field as seen by an accelerated observer under the perspective of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory. We use the Schr\"odinger picture to obtain the wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Matheus M. A. Paixão , Olesya Galkina , Nelson Pinto-Neto

It has been predicted that an accelerating electron performs a Brownian motion in the inertial frame. This Brownian motion in the inertial frame has its roots in the interaction with the thermal excitation given by the Unruh effect in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Shingo Takeuchi

We report the existence of an Unruh like effect, for physical observers (cosmological and comoving observers) in the radiation dominated early universe, which is possible due to the discovery of a new vacuum state (referred here as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Sujoy K. Modak

We generalize the vacuum-Unruh effect to arbitrary excited states in the Fock space and find that the Unruh mode at the horizon induces coherent excitation on the canonical background ensemble measured by an accelerated observer. When there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Angela Chen

We give a complete and rigorous proof of the Unruh effect, in the following form. We show that the state of a two-level system, uniformly accelerated with proper acceleration $a$, and coupled to a scalar bose field initially in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. De Bievre , M. Merkli

Entanglement degradation caused by the Unruh effect is discussed for the tripartite GHZ or W states constructed by modes of a non-interacting quantum field viewed by one inertial observer and two uniformly accelerated observers. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 Mahmoud Shamirzai , Bahram Nasr Esfahani , Morteza Soltani

The master equation describing the completely positive time evolution of a uniformly accelerated two-level system in weak interaction with a scalar field in the Minkowski vacuum is derived and explicitly solved. It encodes the well known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Benatti , R. Floreanini

How long does a uniformly rotating observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to register an approximately thermal response due to the circular motion Unruh effect? We address this question for a massless scalar field in 2+1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Leo J. A. Parry , Diego Vidal-Cruzprieto , Christopher J. Fewster , Jorma Louko

Electrons moving in a strong periodic electromagnetic field (e.g., laser or undulator) may convert quantum vacuum fluctuations into pairs of entangled photons, which can be understood as a signature of the Unruh effect. Apart from verifying…

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

We investigate, from the point of view of a coaccelerated frame, the spontaneous excitation of a uniformly accelerated two-level atom interacting with a scalar field in a thermal state at a finite temperature $T$ and show that the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhiying Zhu , Hongwei Yu

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

Through the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study a uniformly accelerated quark in the vacuum of strongly-coupled conformal field theories in various dimensions, and determine the resulting stochastic fluctuations of the quark trajectory. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-24 Elena Caceres , Mariano Chernicoff , Alberto Guijosa , Juan F. Pedraza

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

Quantum entanglement of the Minkowski vacuum state between left and right Rindler wedges generates thermal behavior in the right Rindler wedge, which is known as the Unruh effect. In this letter, we show that there is another consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-09 Satoshi Iso , Rumi Tatsukawa , Kazushige Ueda , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We study the perception of the radiation phenomena of Hawking radiation and Unruh effect by using two main tools: the Unruh-DeWitt detectors and the effective temperature function (ETF), this last tool based on Bogoliubov transformations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-13 Luis C. Barbado