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The global topology of spacetime, though invisible to local curvature measurements, leaves signatures on the correlation functions of quantum fields. We study these signatures using an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector operating in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Nirmalya Kajuri , Sheeshram Siddh

We study the generalized Unruh effect for accelerated reference frames that include rotation in addition to acceleration. We focus particularly on the case where the motion is planar, with presence of a static limit in addition to the event…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Ivar Korsbakken , Jon Magne Leinaas

We revisit the Unruh effect within a general framework based on direct, probability-level calculations. We rederive the transition rate of a uniformly accelerating Unruh-DeWitt monopole detector coupled to a massive scalar field, from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

We show that the predictions of spatially smeared particle detectors coupled to quantum fields are not generally covariant outside the pointlike limit. This lack of covariance manifests itself as an ambiguity in the time-ordering operation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Eduardo Martín-Martínez , T. Rick Perche , Bruno de S. L. Torres

We discuss how to formulate a condition for choosing the vacuum state of a quantum scalar field on a timelike hyperplane in the general boundary formulation (GBF) using the coupling to an Unruh-DeWitt detector. We explicitly study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Ralf Banisch , Frank Hellmann , Dennis Raetzel

First, we extend the special relativity into the superluminal case and put forward a superluminal theory of kinematics, in which we show that the temporal coordinate need exchanging with one of the spatial coordinates in a superluminal…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Z. C. Tu , Z. Y. Wan

We study how an arbitrary Gaussian state of two localized wave packets, prepared in an inertial frame of reference, is described by a pair of uniformly accelerated observers. We explicitly compute the resulting state for arbitrarily chosen…

In this article, the axioms presented in the first one are reformulated according to the special theory of relativity. Using these axioms, quantum mechanic's relativistic equations are obtained in the presence of electromagnetic fields for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 L. S. F. Olavo

Transformation rules for coordinates, velocities and accelerations in accelerated reference frames are derived. A generalized approach of the special relativity is taken for a basis. A 7-dimensional space including projections of velocity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Ketsaris

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

A practical method is developed to deal with the second quantization of the many-body system containing the composite particles. In our treatment, the modes associated with composite particles are regarded approximately as independent ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 D. L. Zhou , S. Y. Yu , C. P. Sun

Characterizing entanglement is central for quantum information science. Special observables which indicate entanglement, so-called entanglement witnesses, are a widely used tool for this task. The construction of these witnesses typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Chengjie Zhang , Sophia Denker , Ali Asadian , Otfried Gühne

We develop a general formalism for a non-perturbative treatment of harmonic-oscillator particle detectors in relativistic quantum field theory using continuous-variables techniques. By means of this we forgo perturbation theory altogether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Eric G. Brown , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Robert B. Mann

Using nonperturbative results obtained recently for an uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector, we discover new features in the dynamical evolution of the detector's internal degree of freedom, and identified the Unruh effect derived…

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

We begin by admitting the following: (i) there is a frame of reference where the speed of light is the same in any direction (that speed is c) (ii) the average speed of light on a two-way journey is c in every frame of reference. From this…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo de Abreu

Recently, interest has been growing in studies on discrete or "pixelated" space-time that, through modifications in the dispersion relation, can treat the vacuum as a dispersive medium. Discrete spacetime considers that spacetime has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Pedro H. M. Barros , Helder A. S. Costa

Building on the well-known Unruh-Davies effect, we examine the effects of projective measurements and quantum communications between accelerated and stationary observers. We find that the projective measurement by a uniformly accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Muxin Han , S. Jay Olson , Jonathan P. Dowling

In a quantum world, reference frames are ultimately quantum systems too -- but what does it mean to "jump into the perspective of a quantum particle"? In this work, we show that quantum reference frame (QRF) transformations appear naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Marius Krumm , Philipp A. Hoehn , Markus P. Mueller

The equation of the Doppler shift of two bodies in inertial motion in a reference frame at rest (i.e., stationary reference frame) is derived. In this derivation, the wave-particle duality of photons in the theory of special relativity is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Sato

The influence of the relativistic motion of the reference frame on the light reflection law is investigated. The method is based on applying the relativistic aberration affect for three light signals: incident, normal and reflected rays.…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 V. M. Red'kov , Bernhard Rothenstein , George J. Spix