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In this paper it is explicitly demonstrated that the energy conservation law is kept when a detector uniformly accelerated in the Minkowski vacuum is excited and emits a particle. This fact had been hidden in conventional approaches in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Riuji Mochizuki , Takayuki Suga

We present a generalized framework for $n$-photon processes involving a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field. We utilize the $n^\text{th}$ order Dyson series to derive the final quantum state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Arash Azizi

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

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

Previous studies have shown that the Unruh effect completely destroys quantum entanglement and coherence of bipartite states, as modeled by entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors. But does the Unruh effect have a different impact on quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Si-Han Li , Si-Han Shang , Shu-Min Wu

Modeling the qubit by a two-level semiclassical detector coupled to a massless scalar field, we investigate how the Unruh effect affects the nonlocality and entanglement of two-qubit and three-qubit states when one of the entangled qubits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector in inertial and circular motion in Minkowski spacetime of arbitrary dimension, coupled to a quantised scalar field with the Lorentz-violating dispersion relation $\omega = |{\bf k}|\, f (|{\bf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Jorma Louko , Samuel D. Upton

The incorporation of classical general relativity into quantum field theory yields a surprising result -- thermodynamic particle production. One such phenomenon, known as the Unruh effect, causes empty space to effervesce a thermal bath of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-16 Morgan H. Lynch

The Unruh effect has been investigated from the point of view of the quantum statistical Zubarev density operator in space with the Minkowski metric. Quantum corrections of the fourth order in acceleration to the energy-momentum tensor of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Georgy Y. Prokhorov , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

We explore entanglement harvesting using two Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors linearly coupled to the scalar density of a massless spin-1/2 field in 1+1 Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider different vacua, including the Boulware,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Nitesh Kumar Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

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

We consider a pair of two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors accelerated uniformly in the Minkowski vacuum of a massless neutral scalar field, and analyze, within the perturbation theory, the entanglement extracted from the vacuum into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jun-ichirou Koga , Kengo Maeda , Gen Kimura

The response of the Unruh-DeWitt type monopole detectors which were coupled to the quantum field only for a finite proper time interval is studied for inertial and accelerated trajectories, in the Minkowski vacuum in (3+1) dimensions. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Sriramkumar , T. Padmanabhan

Single quantum system, such as Unruh-DeWitt detector, can be used to determine absolute acceleration by local measurements on a quantum field. To show this, we consider two kinematically indistinguishable scenarios: an inertial observer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Andrzej Dragan , Ivette Fuentes , Jorma Louko

We study the thermalization of smeared particle detectors that couple locally to $any$ operator in a quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. We show that if the field state satisfies the KMS condition with inverse temperature $\beta$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 T. Rick Perche

Effective theories describing black hole exteriors contain many open-system features due to the large number of gapless degrees of freedom that lie beyond reach across the horizon. A simple solvable Caldeira-Leggett type model of a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 G. Kaplanek , C. P. Burgess , R. Holman

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

We analyze the two-photon emission process of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. Using second-order perturbation theory, we derive the exact final quantum state of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Arash Azizi

We present novel methods to numerically address the problem of characterizing the response of particle detectors in curved spacetimes. These methods allow for the integration of the Wightman function, at least in principle, in rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Keith K. Ng , Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector which couples linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field on the static cylindrical quotient of the (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, allowing the detector's motion to remain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint