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A study of the spin 1 Unruh-De Witt detectors interacting with a relativistic scalar quantum field is presented. After tracing out the field modes, the resulting density matrix for a bipartite qutrit system is employed to investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 F. M. Guedes , M. S. Guimaraes , I. Roditi , S. P. Sorella

The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration $a$ experiences the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state at temperature $T_U=a/(2\pi)$. An observer in uniform circular motion experiences a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Jorma Louko

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

In this work we make the connection between the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model applied to quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and the rigorous construction of the spin-boson model. With some modifications, we show that existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Erickson Tjoa , Finnian Gray

We analyze the pattern of fields in d+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space in terms of those in d dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The procedure, which is neither dimensional reduction nor dimensional compactification, is called dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 A. Yu. Artsukevich , M. A. Vasiliev

In this work, we derive an upper bound on energetic quantities, namely vacuum energy and free energy, for static solutions of Einstein-Scalar theory in four dimensional asymptotically locally Anti-de Sitter(AlAdS) spacetime with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-28 Krai Cheamsawat

The scalar field exchange diagram for the correlation function of four scalar operators is evaluated in anti-de Sitter space, $AdS_{d+1}$. The conformal dimensions $\Delta_i$, $i=1,...,4$ of the scalar operators and the dimension $\Delta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric D'Hoker , Daniel Z. Freedman

It is well known that the experience of a linearly accelerated observer with acceleration $a$, interacting with a massless scalar field in its vacuum state in $3+1$ Minkowski spacetime, is identical to that of a static observer interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-25 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Leo Parry , T. Rick Perche , Jorma Louko

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

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

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

We study the response function of Unruh-deWitt detectors placed in a flat spacetime inside a thin matter shell. We show that the response function distinguishes between the local and global (Minkowski) inertial frames and picks up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-10 Wan Cong , Jiri Bicak , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

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 the transition rate of a static Unruh-DeWitt detector in two $(2+1)$-dimensional black hole spacetimes that are isometric to the static Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole outside the horizon but have no asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Dyuman Bhattacharya , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann

The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration $a$ experiences Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state in the temperature $T_{\text{lin}} = a/(2\pi)$, operationally measurable via the detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Steffen Biermann , Sebastian Erne , Cisco Gooding , Jorma Louko , Jörg Schmiedmayer , William G. Unruh , Silke Weinfurtner

We investigate the response function of an inertial Unruh-deWitt detector in an impulsive plane wave spacetime. Through symmetry considerations applied to the Wightman function, we demonstrate that the response function remains invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Ricardo A. Mosna

We examine a quantised massive scalar field in $(1+1)$-dimensional spatially compact cosmological spacetimes in which the early time and late time expansion laws provide distinguished definitions of Fock "in" and "out" vacua, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vladimir Toussaint , Jorma Louko

We investigate the massless scalar particle dynamics on $AdS_{N+1} ~ (N>1)$ by the method of Hamiltonian reduction. Using the dynamical integrals of the conformal symmetry we construct the physical phase space of the system as a $SO(2,N+1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Harald Dorn , George Jorjadze

In this paper we analyze the interaction of a uniformly accelerated detector with a quantum field in (3+1)D spacetime, aiming at the issue of how kinematics can render vacuum fluctuations the appearance of thermal radiance in the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We consider the response of a uniformly accelerated monopole detector that is coupled non-linearly to the nth power of a quantum scalar field in (D+1)-dimensional flat spacetime. We show that, when (D+1) is even, the response of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Sriramkumar