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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…

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Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays that produce giant extensive showers of charged particles and photons when they interact in the Earth's atmosphere provide a unique tool to search for new physics. Of particular interest is the possibility of…

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In the framework of the general boundary formulation (GBF) of scalar quantum field theory we obtain a coincidence of expectation values of local observables in the Minkowski vacuum and in a particular state in Rindler space. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-19 Daniele Colosi , Dennis Raetzel

Using a quantum tunneling derivation, we show the resilience of Hawking radiation in Lorentz violating gravity. In particular, we show that the standard derivation of the Hawking effect in relativistic quantum field theory can be extended…

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We discuss the applications of Gauge Theory of Gravity (GTG) within the language of geometric algebra to black holes and Hawking radiation. Applications include the Unruh effect, the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations in several backgrounds,…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 S. Setiawan

This study investigates the consequences of Lorentz symmetry violation in the thermodynamics and gravitational lensing of charged black holes coupled to the Kalb-Ramond field. We first explore the impact of Lorentz-violating parameters on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

The Einstein-Aether theory provides a simple, dynamical mechanism for breaking Lorentz invariance. It does so within a generally covariant context and may emerge from quantum effects in more fundamental theories. The theory leads to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-22 J. A. Zuntz , P. G. Ferreira , T. G. Zlosnik

Much research has been done in the latter years on the subject of Lorentz violation induced by Quantum Gravity effects. On the theoretical side it has been shown that both Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory predict that Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Vucetich

We calculate the radiation resulting from the Unruh effect for strongly accelerated electrons and show that the photons are created in pairs whose polarizations are maximally entangled. Apart from the photon statistics, this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralf Schützhold , Gernot Schaller , Dietrich Habs

We consider a generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) corresponding to a deformation of the fundamental commutator obtained by adding a term quadratic in the momentum. From this GUP, we compute corrections to the Unruh effect and related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Fabio Scardigli , Massimo Blasone , Gaetano Luciano , Roberto Casadio

The Unruh effect predicts that an accelerated observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath, but its direct observation requires extreme accelerations beyond current experimental reach. Foundational theory [Olson & Ralph, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhenghao Luo , Yi Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zihan Xie , Zehua Tian , Yiheng Lin

Black hole thermodynamics in Lorentz-violating gravity is subtle because different excitations propagate at different speeds and hence identify different causal horizons. We revisit Einstein--AEther gravity using the covariant phase space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Walter Arata , Stefano Liberati , Giulio Neri

The class of covariant gravity theories which have nice ultraviolet behavior and seem to be (super)-renormalizable is proposed. The apparent breaking of Lorentz invariance occurs due to the coupling with the effective fluid which is induced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

We revisit the thermal nature of the Unruh effect within a quantum thermodynamic framework. For a Unruh-deWitt (UDW) detector in $n$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, we demonstrate that its irreversible thermalization to a Gibbs equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Zihao Wang , Wenjing Chen , Si-Wei Han , Xiaoshan Feng , Linmu Qiao , Zhichun Ouyang , Jun Feng

It was recently advanced the argument that Unruh effect emerges from the study of quantum field theory in quantum space-time. Quantum space-time is identified with the Hilbert space of a new kind of quantum fields, the accelerated fields,…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Vasileios I. Kiosses

Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental property of Einstein's theory of general relativity that one may wish to test with gravitational wave observations. Einstein-aether theory is a model that introduces Lorentz-symmetry breaking in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 Kristen Schumacher , Scott Ellis Perkins , Ashley Shaw , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

A uniformly accelerated atom in an inertial vacuum generally thermalizes and reaches a Gibbs state. This phenomenon is commonly known as the Unruh effect. Here, we show that the situation is entirely different for the many-atoms problem. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Saptarshi Saha , Chiranjeeb Singha , Pragna Das , Arpan Chatterjee

High-intensity laser fields acting on free electrons were proposed to create sufficiently large accelerations to enable detection of Unruh radiation. However, the currently achievable electron accelerations are not large enough. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-04 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We introduce a method to compute particle detector transition probability in spacetime regions of general curved spacetimes provided that the curvature is not above a maximum threshold. In particular we use this method to compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Aida Ahmadzadegan , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Robert B. Mann

In quantum field theory, the vacuum is popularly considered to be a complex medium populated with virtual particle + antiparticle pairs. To an observer experiencing uniform acceleration, it is generally held that these virtual particles…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexandre Deur , Stanley J. Brodsky , Craig D. Roberts , Balša Terzić