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The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Andre G. S. Landulfo , Stephen A. Fulling , George E. A. Matsas

We study phase-sensitive amplification of electromagnetically induced transparency in a warm ${}^{85}$Rb vapor wherein a microwave driving field couples the two lower-energy states of a {\Lambda} energy-level system thereby transforming…

In the 1970s, Fulling, Davies, and Unruh demonstrated that the vacuum state perceived by an inertial observer in Minkowski space appears as a thermal bath to a uniformly accelerated observer. We explore the transformation of the Wigner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Nitesh K. Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

In this Letter we make a critique of, and comparison between, the anomaly method and WKB/tunneling method for obtaining radiation from non-trivial spacetime backgrounds. We focus on Rindler spacetime (the spacetime of an accelerating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-07 Valeria Akhmedova , Terry Pilling , Andrea de Gill , Douglas Singleton

In this paper we compute the temperature registered by an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a Hadamard renormalizable quantum field in an arbitrary state, moving along an accelerated trajectory in a curved spacetime. For a massless and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-01 Morgan H. Lynch , Niayesh Afshordi

An accelerated particle sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited, which is called the Unruh effect. Due to an interaction with the thermal bath, the particle moves stochastically like the Brownian motion in a heat bath. It has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-24 Satoshi Iso , Yasuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

A thermo field dynamics approach for calculating the entropy of a spacetime is suggested. It is exemplified through the Rindler spacetime, the Milne spacetime, the Boulware spacetime, and the Minkowski spacetime with a moving mirror that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Yu-Zhu Chen , Wen-Du Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

We investigate thermal behaviour in quantum fields by analysing a hierarchy of null-shifted Rindler wedges in Minkowski spacetime. Starting from the Minkowski vacuum restricted to an initial Rindler wedge, we construct several inequivalent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Rakesh K Jha , Akhil U Nair , Prasant Samantray , Sashideep Gutti

The standard (non-relativistic) $\kappa$-distribution is widely used to fit data and to describe macroscopic thermodynamical behavior, e.g.\ the pressure (temperature) as the second moment of the distribution function. By contrast to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Klaus Scherer , Horst Fichtner , Hans-Jörg Fahr , Marian Lazar

We demonstrate that the quantum vacuum, as perceived by a uniformly accelerating observer, can be harnessed to perform a quantum Z-gate. A two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector, prepared in a superposition of its ground and excited states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Arash Azizi

An upper bound of the relative entanglement entropy of thermal states at an inverse temperature $\beta$ of linear, massive Klein-Gordon and Dirac quantum field theories across two regions, separated by a nonzero distance $d$ in a Cauchy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Onirban Islam

We examine the influence of the dispersion relation on the Unruh effect by Lorentz boosting the phase of Minkowski vacuum fluctuations endowed with an arbitrary dispersion relation. We find that, unlike what happens with a linear dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 F. Hammad , A. Landry , D. Dijamco

When ground-state atoms are accelerated and the field with which they interact is in its normal vacuum state, the atoms detect Unruh radiation. We show that atoms falling into a black hole emit acceleration radiation which, under…

We show that the temperature of a diffusing fluid with the diffusion constant \kappa^{2} in an expanding universe approaches a constant limit T=\kappa^{2}/H in its final de Sitter stage characterized by the horizon 1/H determined by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Z. Haba

The Unruh effect is the prediction that an accelerating object perceives its surroundings as a bath of thermal radiation even if it accelerates in vacuum. The Unruh effect is believed to be very difficult to observe in the experiment, since…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-23 I. I. Smolyaninov

Unruh effect states that the vacuum of a quantum field theory on Minkovski space-time looks like a thermal state for an eternal uniformly accelerated observer. Adaptation to the non eternal case causes a serious problem: if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Martinetti

Adopting a bottom-up perspective, we propose a novel two-parametric nonadditive entropy, $S_{\kappa\ell}$, associated with a Kappa-type power-law velocity distribution, $F_{\kappa\ell}(v)$, recently derived in the literature. By formulating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-04 J. A. S. Lima , M. H. Benetti

Thermal conductivity coefficient $\kappa$ measures the ability of a material to conduct a heat current. In particular, $\kappa$ is an important property that often dictates the usefulness of a material over a wide range of environmental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-23 Debashish Mukherji

The entanglement of two atoms is studied when the two atoms are coupled to a single-mode thermal field with different couplings. The different couplings of two atoms are in favor of entanglement preparation: it not only makes the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Zhou , X. X. Yi , H. S. Song , Y. Q. Guo

The quantum fluctuations of an "accelerated" vacuum state, that is vacuum fluctuations in the presence of a constant electromagnetic field, can be described by the temperature $\TEH$. Considering $\TEH$ for the gyromagnetic factor $g=1$ we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-24 Lance Labun , Johann Rafelski