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We analyse the effect of velocity and acceleration on the temperature felt by particles and strings in backgrounds relevant in holographic models. First, we compare accelerated strings and strings at finite temperature. We find that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Angel Paredes , Kasper Peeters , Marija Zamaklar

In Minkowski spacetime quantum field theory, each stationary motion is associated with an effective, energy-dependent notion of temperature, which generalises the familiar Unruh temperature of uniform linear acceleration. Motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-16 Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko

Acceleration radiation - or Unruh radiation - the thermal radiation observed by an ever accelerating observer or detector, although having similarities to Hawking radiation, so far has proved extremely challenging to observe experimentally.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Brian P. Dolan , Aonghus Hunter-McCabe , Jason Twamley

The purpose of this review is to provide a pedagogical development of the Unruh effect and the thermofield double state. In Section 2, we construct Rindler spacetime and analyze the perspective of an observer undergoing constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Gustavo Valdivia-Mera

The Unruh effect predicts an astonishing phenomenon that an accelerated detector would detect counts despite being in a quantum field vacuum in the rest frame. Since the required detector acceleration for its direct observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xu Cheng , Yue Li , Zehua Tian , Xingyu Zhao , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin

We study the locality of the acceleration temperature in the Unruh effect. To this end, we develop a new formalism for the modeling of macroscopic irreversible detectors. In particular, the formalism allows for the derivation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

We study the evolution of neutrinos in a background matter moving with a linear acceleration. The Dirac equation for a massive neutrino electroweakly interacting with background fermions is obtained in a comoving frame where matter is at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Maxim Dvornikov

We find that a uniformly accelerated particle detector coupled to the vacuum can cool down as its acceleration increases, due to relativistic effects. We show that in (1+1)-dimensions, a detector coupled to the scalar field vacuum for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Wilson G. Brenna , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Andre G. S. Landulfo , Stephen A. Fulling , George E. A. Matsas

The goal of quantum metrology is the exploitation of quantum resources, like entanglement or quantum coherence, in the fundamental task of parameter estimation. Here we consider the question of the estimation of the Unruh temperature in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Danilo Borim , Lucas C. Céleri , Vasileios I. Kiosses

An accelerated observer moving through empty space sees particles appearing and disappearing, while an observer with a constant velocity does not register any particles. This phenomenon, generally known as the Unruh effect, relies on an…

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

It is well known that Minkowski vacuum appears as a thermal bath in the Rindler spacetime when the modes on the left wedge are traced out. We introduce the concept of a Rindler-Rindler spacetime, obtained by a further coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan

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 investigate the behaviour of quantum fields in null-shifted Rindler wedges and analyse the particle spectra perceived by accelerated observers associated with these null deformations. Unlike the standard Unruh effect, our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Rakesh K Jha

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

We consider the conformal scalar field theory with $\lambda \phi^4$ self-interaction in Rindler and Minkowskian coordinates at finite temperature planckian distribution for the exact modes. The solution of the one-loop Dyson-Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 D. V. Diakonov , K. V. Bazarov

In our previous work it has been shown the possibility to use the Aharonov-Anandan invariant as a tool in the analysis of disparate systems, including Hawking and Unruh effects, as well as graphene physics and thermal states. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 A. Capolupo , G. Vitiello

As it is well known, the Minkowski vacuum appears thermally populated to a quantum mechanical detector on a uniformly accelerating course. We investigate how this thermal radiation may contribute to the classical nature of the detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 J. - G. Demers

We study one-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a spatially-varying Dirac velocity $v(x)$, that can form an approximate lab-based Rindler Hamiltonian describing an observer accelerating in Minkowski spacetime. A sudden switch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Khristian B. Tallent , Daniel E. Sheehy