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We give an interpretation of the temperature in de Sitter universe in terms of a dynamical Unruh effect associated with the Hubble sphere. As with the quantum noise perceived by a uniformly accelerated observer in static space-times,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-23 R. Casadio , S. Chiodini , A. Orlandi , G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , L. Vanzo

We assume that particles are point-like objects even when not observed. We report on the consequences of our assumption within the realm of quantum theory. An important consequence is the necessity of vacuum fields to account for particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Eduardo V. Flores

It is well known that the experience of a linearly accelerated observer with acceleration $a$, interacting with a massless scalar field in its vacuum state in $3+1$ Minkowski spacetime, is identical to that of a static observer interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-25 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Leo Parry , T. Rick Perche , Jorma Louko

We study the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of acceleration, in the open quantum systems, for a two-level atom with the circular motion coupled to a massless scalar field in the Minkowski vacuum without and with a reflecting boundary in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Zixu Zhao , Shuhang Zhang , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

We investigate the Unruh effect for a massless scalar field in the two dimensional Minkowski space in the presence of a uniformly accelerated perfect mirror, with the trajectory of the mirror chosen in such a way that the mirror completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-05 Nistor Nicolaevici

In this work, we investigate the velocity effects on information degradation due to the Unruh effect in accelerated quantum systems (with finite interaction time). We consider a detector moving along a spatial trajectory within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. H. M. Barros , Shu-Min Wu , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

Several approaches to quantum gravity suggest violations of Lorentz symmetry as low-energy signatures. This article uses a concrete Lorentz-violating quantum field theory to study different inertial vacua. We show that they are unitarily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Bruno Arderucio Costa , Yuri Bonder , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry

Covariant generalizations of well-known wave equations predict the existence of inertial-gravitational effects for a variety of quantum systems that range from Bose-Einstein condensates to particles in accelerators. Additional effects arise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Papini

Exploring quantum phenomena in a curved spacetime is an emerging interdisciplinary area relating many fields in physics such as general relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum information. One famous prediction is the Hawking-Unruh thermal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Jiazhong Hu , Lei Feng , Zhendong Zhang , Cheng Chin

We investigate Brownian motions of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field. The Unruh effect predicts that an observer in an accelerated motion sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited. This addresses the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

The uncertainty principle bounds our ability to simultaneously predict two incompatible observables of a quantum particle. Assisted by a quantum memory to store the particle, this uncertainty could be reduced and quantified by a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-01 Jun Feng , Yao-Zhong Zhang , Mark D. Gould , Heng Fan

It is well known that Minkowski vacuum appears as a thermal bath in the Rindler spacetime when the modes on the left wedge are traced out. We introduce the concept of a Rindler-Rindler spacetime, obtained by a further coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan

The main theme of this survey is the equivalence statements for quantum scalar field vacuum states that have been recognized over the last couple of decades as a powerful line of reasoning when discussing the highly academic thermal-like…

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

We propose that the quantum vacuum may be considered as a gas of virtual photons which carry a non-vanishing linear momentum as well as a non-vanishing energy. We study, in particular, the Casimir effect in order to show that these virtual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adonai S. Sant'Anna , Daniel C. Freitas

In quantum theory the vacuum is defined as a state of minimum energy that is devoid of particles but still not completely empty. It is perhaps more surprising that its definition depends on the geometry of the system and on the trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 F. Intravaia

We put forward a physical model of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery and use quantum work extraction as a probe to witness the thermal nature of the Unruh effect in a high dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By means of the open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Yan Chen , Wei-Wei Zhang , Tian-Xi Ren , Xiang Hao

In the absence of a tractable theory of quantum gravity, quantum matter field effects have been so far computed by treating gravity at the Background Field Approximation. The principle aim of this paper is to investigate the validity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Parentani

We quantify the quantum correlations between two accelerated detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cavity. It has been realized that an accelerated detector will experience a thermal bath, which is termed the Unruh effect. We examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 He Wang , Jin Wang

We give a complete and rigorous proof of the Unruh effect, in the following form. We show that the state of a two-level system, uniformly accelerated with proper acceleration $a$, and coupled to a scalar bose field initially in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. De Bievre , M. Merkli

In this paper, we investigate the Unruh radiation in the Bohmian field theory on a shape dynamics background setting. Since metric and metric momentum are real quantities, the integral kernel to invert the Lichnerowicz-York equation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Furkan Semih Dündar , Metin Arik