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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

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

A Planck scale inflationary era -- in a quantum gravity theory predicting discreteness of quantum geometry at the fundamental scale -- produces the scale invariant spectrum of inhomogeneities with very small tensor-to-scalar ratio of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Gabriel R. Bengochea , Gabriel Leon , Alejandro Perez

We analyse the response of a spatially extended direction-dependent local quantum system, a detector, moving on the Rindler trajectory of uniform linear acceleration in Minkowski spacetime, and coupled linearly to a quantum scalar field. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-14 Sanved Kolekar

The energy of a particle moving on a spacetime, in principle, can affect the background metric. The modifications to it depend on the ratio of energy of the particle and the Planck energy, known as rainbow gravity. Here we find the explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Gaurav Yadav , Baby Komal , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We review (and extend) the analysis of general theories of all interactions (gravity included) where the mass scales are due to dimensional transmutation. Quantum consistency requires the presence of terms in the action with four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-12 Alberto Salvio

The quite different behaviors exhibited by microscopic and macroscopic systems with respect to quantum interferences suggest that there may exist a naturally frontier between quantum and classical worlds. The value of the Planck mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 Serge Reynaud , Brahim Lamine , Marc-Thierry Jaekel

The existence of a minimal and fundamental length scale, say, the Planck length, is a characteristic feature of almost all the models of quantum gravity. The presence of the fundamental length is expected to lead to an improved ultra-violet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-05 Dawood Kothawala , S. Shankaranarayanan , L. Sriramkumar

One regime where we might see departures from general relativity is at the largest accessible scales, with a natural choice in cosmology being the cosmological horizon (or Hubble) scale. We investigate a single-parameter extension to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Robin Y. Wen , Lukas T. Hergt , Niayesh Afshordi , Douglas Scott

Examining the reverse evolution of the universe from the present, long before reaching Planck density dynamics one expects major modifications from the de-coherent thermal equations of state, suggesting a prior phase that has macroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James V. Lindesay , H. Pierre Noyes

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime. We first obtain a regulator-free expression for the transition probability in an arbitrary Hadamard state, working within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

The claim that at the so-called Planck scale our current physics breaks down and a new theory of quantum gravity is required is ubiquitous, but the evidence is shakier than the confidence of those assertions warrants. In this paper, I…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Caspar Jacobs

We apply the master equation with dynamical coarse graining approximation to a pair of detectors interacting with a scalar field. By solving the master equation numerically, we investigate evolution of negativity between comoving detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shingo Kukita , Yasusada Nambu

Quantum gravity theory is untested experimentally. Could it be tested with tabletop experiments? While the common feeling is pessimistic, a detailed inquiry shows it possible to sidestep the onerous requirement of localization of a probe on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-06 Jacob D. Bekenstein

There are good indications that fundamental physics gives rise to a modified space-momentum uncertainty relation that implies the existence of a minimum length scale. We implement this idea in the scalar field theory that describes density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 S. F. Hassan , Martin S. Sloth

A particular framework for quantum gravity is the doubly special relativity (DSR) formalism that introduces a new observer independent scale (the Planck scale). We resort to the methods of statistical mechanics in this framework to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-17 Mir Mehedi Faruk , Md. Muktadir Rahman

All existing experimental results are currently interpreted using classical geometry. However, there are theoretical reasons to suspect that at a deeper level, geometry emerges as an approximate macroscopic behavior of a quantum system at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Craig Hogan

One of the primary reasons behind the difficulty in observing the Unruh effect is that for achievable acceleration scales the finite temperature effects are significant only for the low frequency modes of the field. Since the density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan

We investigate the cosmological consequences of the modified Friedmann equations when the entropy associated with the apparent horizon, given by Barrow entropy, $S\sim A^{1+\delta/2}$, where $0\leq\delta\leq1$, represents the amount of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Ahmad Sheykhi

We reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations by applying a well-validated non-parametric technique employing Tikhonov regularisation to the first data release from the Planck satellite. To improve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-31 Paul Hunt , Subir Sarkar