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The effect of black holes on entanglement harvesting has been of considerable interest over the past decade. Research involving stationary Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors near a (2+1)-dimensional Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Wang , M. R. Preciado Rivas , R. B. Mann

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

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime, within first-order perturbation theory. We first obtain a causal and manifestly regular expression for the instantaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

One of the pronounced characteristics of gravity, distinct from other interactions, is that there are no local observables which are independent of the choice of the spacetime coordinates. This property acquires crucial importance in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-02 Kanato Goto , Yoichi Kazama

We consider the transition rate of a freely falling Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a massless scalar quantum field prepared in the Hartle-Hawking-Israel state, as a probe of the interior of a black hole. Specifically, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Massimiliano Spadafora , Manar Naeem , María R. Preciado-Rivas , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

We obtained an exact solution for a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in (3+1) dimensions which enables us to study the entire evolution of the total system, from the initial transient to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

In quantum field theory applied to black hole spacetimes, substantial evidence suggests that the Unruh and Hartle-Hawking vacuum states become singular at Cauchy horizons. This raises essential questions regarding the impact of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Julio Arrechea , Giulio Neri , Stefano Liberati

Rotating or charged classical black holes in isolation possess a special surface in their interior, the Cauchy horizon, beyond which the evolution of spacetime (based on the equations of General Relativity) ceases to be deterministic. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Noa Zilberman , Marc Casals , Amos Ori , Adrian C. Ottewill

We examine the late-time evolution of a qubit (or Unruh-De Witt detector) that hovers very near to the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole, while interacting with a free quantum scalar field. The calculation is carried out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Greg Kaplanek , C. P. Burgess

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

We study an internal structure of (2+1)-dimensional black hole with the neutral scalar matter in the spherically symmetric geometry by using a quantum theory of gravity which holds in the both vicinities of the singularity and the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ichiro Oda

We propose that the vacuum state of a scalar field around a black hole is a modified Unruh vacuum. In (1+1) dimensions, we show that a free-faller close to such an horizon can be modelled as an inertial observer in a modified Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-13 C. T. Marco Ho , Daiqin Su , Robert B. Mann , Timothy C. Ralph

The cosmic censorship conjecture posits that singularities forming to the future of a regular Cauchy surface are hidden by an event horizon. Consequently any topological structures will ultimately collapse within the horizon of a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexander R. H. Smith , Robert B. Mann

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

Spacetime singularities pose a long-standing puzzle in quantum gravity. Unlike Schwarzschild, a generic family of black holes gives rise to a Cauchy horizon on which, even in the Hartle-Hawking state, quantum observables such as $\langle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-20 Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We study the dynamics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes whose metric is characterised by a single metric function $f(r)$. In order to obtain clean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

In pursuit of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, operational approaches offer insights into quantum-gravitational effects produced by quantum superposition of different spacetimes not diffeomorphic to one another. Recent work applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Lakshay Goel , Everett A. Patterson , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Mahdi Torabian , Robert B. Mann , Niayesh Afshordi

We analyse the excitations and de-excitations of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector in the $(1+1)$-dimensional expanding Milne cosmology with compact spatial sections, coupled to a real massless scalar field with either untwisted or twisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Adam S. Wilkinson , Jorma Louko

We study the quantum effects of a test Klein-Gordon field in a Vaidya spacetime consisting of a collapsing null shell that forms a Schwazschild black hole, by explicitly obtaining, in a $(1+1)$-dimensional model, the Wightman function, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

Virtual transitions in a Casimir-like configuration are utilized to probe quantum aspects of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity. This study employs a quantum optics-based approach, wherein an Unruh-DeWitt detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Syed Masood