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Applying the techniques of light-front quantization to quantize a scalar field in a monochromatic gravitational wave background, we manage to investigate the response of the Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a scalar field in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

In this essay we examine the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector (a quantum two-level system) to a gravitational wave background. The spectrum of the Unruh-Dewitt detector is of the same form as some scattering processes or three body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Preston Jones , Douglas Singleton

We construct the massive scalar propagator for planar gravitational wave backgrounds propagating on Minkowski space. We represent the propagator in terms of the Bessel's function of suitably deformed nonlocal distance functions, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Rens van Haasteren , Tomislav Prokopec

Quantum radiated energy flux emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector, with the internal harmonic oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field, in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space is studied by numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Shih-Yuin Lin

We examine the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in an arbitrary Hadamard state in four-dimensional curved spacetime. Using smooth switching functions to turn on and off the interaction, we obtain a regulator-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

We investigated the influence of the massive scalar field on the information degradation concerning the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors. In this conjecture, we adopted a system with a finite and large interaction time. To accomplish our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 P. H. M. Barros , F. C. E. Lima , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

We present a comprehensive theoretical framework for gravitational wave (GW) propagation and their \textbf{nonlinear backreaction} in $f(R, G)$ modified gravity. By developing a scalar-tensor formulation with two auxiliary fields, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Farzad Milani

Gravitational wave detectors are typically described as responding to gravitational wave metric perturbations, which are gauge-dependent and --- correspondingly --- unphysical quantities. This is particularly true for ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Michael J. Koop , Lee Samuel Finn

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

We develop a fully gauge invariant analysis of gravitational wave polarizations in metric f(R) gravity with a particular focus on the modified Starobinsky model, whose constant curvature solution provides a natural deSitter background for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Ramesh Radhakrishnan , David McNutt , Delaram Mirfendereski , Alejandro Pinero , Eric Davis , William Julius , Gerald Cleaver

In this manuscript, we examine the gravitational radiation emitted by binary systems using an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to gravitons. Recoil is incorporated into the system via a kinetic energy term in the energy gap of the detector. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Morgan H. Lynch

The propagator of a scalar field on a stationary slowly varying in space gravitational background is derived retaining only the second derivatives of the metric. The corresponding one-loop effective action is constructed. The propagator and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-13 P. O. Kazinski

The dispersion in the speed of gravitational waves is a novel way to test the general theory of relativity and understand whether the origin of cosmic acceleration is due to any alternative theory of gravity. Several alternative theories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Adith Praveen , Panchajanya Dey , Suvodip Mukherjee

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jerzy Paczos , Navdeep Arya , Sofia Qvarfort , Daniel Braun , Magdalena Zych

The observation of gravitational waves opens up a new window to probe the universe and the nature of the gravitational field itself. As a result, they serve as a new and promising tool to not only test our current theories but to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Felipe Portales-Oliva , André G. S. Landulfo

Quantum radiated power emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1)D Minkowski space, with the internal harmonic oscillator minimally coupled to a massless scalar field, is obtained non-perturbatively by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shih-Yuin Lin

The gravitational constant variation means the breakdown of the strong equivalence principle. As the cornerstone of general relativity, the validity of general relativity can be examined by studying the gravitational constant variation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Bing Sun , Jiachen An , Zhoujian Cao

The Unruh effect refers to the thermal fluctuations a detector experiences while undergoing linear motion with uniform acceleration in a Minkowski vacuum. This thermality can be demonstrated by tracing the vacuum state of the field over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Jason Doukas , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu , Robert B. Mann

It has been known that gravitational waves (GWs) transfer energy to viscous matter through which they propagate, but the effect is too weak to be astrophysically significant. Using linearized perturbations about a Minkowski background, we…

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