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If an Unruh-DeWitt detector moves with a uniform acceleration in Fock-space vacuum, then the transition rate of the detector is proportional to the thermal spectrum. It is well known that the transition rate of the detector crucially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-05 Gopal Sardar , Subhashish Banerjee

We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Yuki Osawa , Yasusada Nambu

We show an analogy between static quantum emitters coupled to a single mode of a quantum field and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors. We envision a way to simulate a variety of relativistic quantum field settings beyond the reach of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. del Rey , D. Porras , E. Martin-Martinez

We analyze potential violations of causality in Unruh DeWitt-type detector models in relativistic quantum information. We proceed by first studying the relation between faster-than-light signaling and the causal factorization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 José de Ramón , Maria Papageorgiou , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We explore the quantum coherence between a pair of entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors, interacting with a quantum field, using a nonperturbative approach in a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Wentao Liu

If an Unruh-DeWitt detector operates for an infinite proper time along the trajectory of a uniformly accelerated observer in Fock space then induced transition rate of the detector is proportional to Planck distribution. For a realistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-20 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Gopal Sardar

Particle filtering algorithms have enabled practical solutions to problems in autonomous robotics (self-driving cars, UAVs, warehouse robots), target tracking, and econometrics, with further applications in speech processing and medicine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Orestis Kaparounakis , Yunqi Zhang , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Feynman's path integral approach is studied in the framework of the Wigner-Dunkl deformation of quantum mechanics. We start with reviewing some basics from Dunkl theory and investigate the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Georg Junker

In this paper, we investigate the quantum correlations and coherence of two accelerating Unruh-deWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in 3 + 1 Minkowski space-time. We show that the entanglement is completely destroyed in the limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Muthuganesan , R. Radha

In this work the possibility of detecting the presence of a Yukawa term, as an additional contribution to the usual Newtonian gravitational potential, is introduced. The central idea is to analyze the effects at quantum level employing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Abel Camacho

The path integral quantization method is applied to a relativistically covariant version of the Hopfield model, which represents a very interesting mesoscopic framework for the description of the interaction between quantum light and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Belgiorno , S. L. Cacciatori , F. Dalla Piazza , M. Doronzo

The influence functional is derived for a massive scalar field in the ground state, coupled to a uniformly accelerating DeWitt monopole detector in $D+1$ dimensional Minkowski space. This confirms the local nature of the Unruh effect, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. R. Anglin

In the present paper, Unruh--DeWitt detectors are used in order to investigate the issue of temperature associated with a spherically symmetric dynamical space-times. Firstly, we review the semi-classical tunneling method, then we introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , M. Tolotti , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

We consider a particle detector model on 1+1-dimensional Minkowski space-time that is accelerated by a constant external acceleration a. The detector is coupled to a massless scalar test field. Due to the Unruh effect, this detector becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Franz Thoma

We investigate the quantum field theory of a Lorentz non-invariant model with a massive nonlinear dispersion relation in Minkowski space. The model involves some non-causal signals in the form of wave packets propagating with super-luminal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-30 R. Rashidi , N. Khosravi , E. Khajeh , H. Salehi

The quantum detection of spacetime conicity was investigated in reference [Phys. Lett. B 820, 136482 (2021)] through the analysis of the response function of an Unruh-deWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field. In particular, it was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Jefferson Monção da Silva , João Paulo M. Pitelli

We demonstrate that the Unruh-DeWitt harmonic-oscillator detectors in (1+1) dimensions derivative-coupled with a massless scalar field can mimic the atom mirrors in free space. Without introducing the Dirichlet boundary condition to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-30 Shih-Yuin Lin

We investigate the quantization of a single unstable mode in a real scalar field subject to a Robin boundary condition in (1+1)-dimensional half-Minkowski spacetime. The instability arises from an imaginary frequency mode - analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Bruno S. Felipe , João P. M. Pitelli

Path integrals represent a powerful route to quantization: they calculate probabilities by summing over classical configurations of variables such as fields, assigning each configuration a phase equal to the action of that configuration.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Seth Lloyd , Olaf Dreyer

In a quantum sense, vacuum is not an empty void but full of virtual particles (fields). It may have long-range properties, be altered, and even undergo phase transitions. It is suggested that long-range properties of a quantum vacuum may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu
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