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The Unruh effect is notoriously difficult to detect, as it is exponentially overwhelmed by Wigner--Weisskopf spontaneous emission. We show that this fundamental obstacle can be overcome by harnessing multi-detector quantum interference. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Arash Azizi

In recent work by M.H.Lynch, E.Cohen, Y.Hadad and I.Kaminer (LCHK), a modified model of the Unruh-DeWitt quantum detector, coupled to a 4-vector current, has been proposed to examine the radiation emitted by high energy positrons channeled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-20 Yefim S. Levin

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless Dirac field. Assuming that the detector is moving along an hyperbolic trajectory, we modeled the effects of fluctuations in the event horizon using a Dirac equation with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 C. H. G. Bessa , J. G. Duenas , N. F. Svaiter

We investigate the correlation harvesting protocol using two Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors moving along four classes of uniformly accelerated trajectories categorized by Letaw: linear, catenary, cusped, and circular motions. For each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Lana Bozanic , Manar Naeem , Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann

We present simple arguments that detectors moving with constant acceleration (even acceleration for a finite time) should detect particles. The effect is seen to be universal. Moreover, detectors undergoing linear acceleration and uniform,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil T. Akhmedov , Douglas Singleton

We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

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

After a review of the existing theory of non-inertial frames and mathematical observers in Minkowski space-time we give the explicit expression of a family of such frames obtained from the inertial ones by means of point-dependent Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

Although the thermal and radiative effects associated with a two-level quantum system undergoing acceleration are now widely understood and accepted, a surprising amount of controversy still surrounds the simpler and older problem of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Gabriel Cozzella , Stephen A. Fulling , André G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas

We study the response of a uniformly accelerated detector modeled by a two-level atom nonlinearly coupled to vacuum massless Rarita-Schwinger fields. We first generalize the formalism developed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Qinglin Li , Hongwei Yu , Wenting Zhou

In this paper, we employ the quantum regression theorem, a powerful tool in the study of open quantum systems, to analytically study the correlation functions of an Unruh-DeWitt detector, which is an uniformly accelerated two-level quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Manjari Dutta , Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We study the Anti-Unruh effect in general stationary scenarios. We find that, for accelerated trajectories, a particle detector coupled to a KMS state of a quantum field can cool down (click less often) as the KMS temperature increases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jose de Ramon

Probing quantumness in curved spacetime is regarded as one of fundamental and important topics in the framework of relativistic quantum information. In this work, we focus on the theoretical feasibility of probing quantum properties in de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

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

We construct a smooth trajectory in Minkowski spacetime that is inertial in the asymptotic past and future but undergoes approximately uniform acceleration for a finite duration. In a suitable limit, this trajectory reduces to the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Nitesh K. Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

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

We propose a fully covariant model for smeared particle detectors in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. We show how effects related to accelerated motion of the detector and the curvature of spacetime influence the way different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Eduardo Martín-Martínez , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

The Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model has found success in demonstrating quantum information channels with non-zero channel capacity between qubits and quantum fields. These detector models provide the necessary framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Eric W. Aspling , John A. Marohn , Michael J. Lawler

Unruh's detector calculation is used to study the effect of the defect angle $\beta$ in a space-time with a cosmic string for both the excitation and deexcitation cases. It is found that a rotating detector results in a non-zero effect for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Bilge , M. Hortacsu , N. Ozdemir

We show that the operational definition of non-classicality of a quantum state depends on the motion of the observer. We use the relativistic Unruh-DeWitt detector model to witness nonclassicality of the probed field state. It turns out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Agata Chęcińska , Krzysztof Lorek , Andrzej Dragan