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We study the back reaction effect of massless minimally coupled scalar field at finite temperatures in the background of Einstein universe. Substituting for the vacuum expectation value of the components of the energy-momentum tensor on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. B. Altaie , M. R. Setare

In this paper, within the framework of modified gravity involving a conformal scalar field, we investigate the Joule-Thomson expansion of the FRW universe to identify cooling and heating regions. Notably, we observe that the Joule-Thomson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Haximjan Abdusattar , Shi-Bei Kong

We investigate the transition rates of uniformly accelerated two-level single and entangled atomic systems in empty space as well as inside a cavity. We take into account the interaction between the systems and a massless scalar field from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar

We consider (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum states which possess edge states described by a chiral (1+1)-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), such as e.g. a general quantum Hall state. We demonstrate that for such states the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Hosho Katsura , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

The Unruh effect predicts that a uniformly accelerated observer perceives the vacuum seen by an inertial observer as a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its proper acceleration. This phenomenon is often regarded as a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

The Unruh effect, predicting a thermal reservoir for accelerating systems, calls for a more refined understanding of measurement processes involving quantum systems as thermometers. Conventional models fail to account for the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 M. Cardi , P. Solinas , N. Zanghì

The Unruh effect, thereby an ideally accelerated quantum detector is predicted to absorb thermalized virtual photons and re-emit real photons, is significantly extended for laboratory accessible configurations. Using modern influence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 Charles H. -T. Wang , Gianluca Gregori , Robert Bingham , Yakubu Adamu , Bethel N. Eneh , Maé C. Rodriguez , Sarah-Jane Twigg

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 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

The notions of temperature, entropy and `evaporation', usually associated with spacetimes with horizons, are analyzed using general approach and the following results, applicable to different spacetimes, are obtained at one go. (i) The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Padmanabhan

The Minkowski vacuum is often presented in textbooks and reviews as a thermofield double (TFD) state, an entangled state of field modes in the left and right Rindler wedges. This picture is widely used to explain the Unruh effect, motivate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Vaibhav Wasnik

The Unruh effect--the prediction that an accelerated observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath--remains one of the most profound yet experimentally unverified consequences of quantum field theory. This work analyzes a model for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Vladimir Toussaint --

We compute the entropy of a Rindler particle-detector (observer) in the presence of a quantum field in the Minkowski vacuum state; due to the Unruh effect, the observer is immersed in a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Brauer , E. Kirchuk , L. Raviola , M. Socolovsky

Due to the Unruh effect, accelerated and inertial observers differ in their description of a given quantum state. The implications of this effect are explored for the entropy assigned by such observers to localized objects that may cross…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald Marolf , Djordje Minic , Simon Ross

The Hawking-Unruh effect of thermal radiance from a black hole or observed by an accelerated detector is usually viewed as a geometric effect related to the existence of an event horizon. Here we propose a new viewpoint, that the detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu

The trace of the heat kernel in a (D+1)-dimensional Euclidean spacetime (integer D > 1) is used to derive the free energy in finite temperature field theory. The spacetime presents a D-dimensional compact space (domain) with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-12 Yuri V. Gusev

We study the quantum-mechanical corrections to two point particles accelerated by a strut in a 2+1 D flat background. Since the particles are accelerating, we use finite temperature techniques to compute the Green's function of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohamed M. Anber

Equilibrium finite temperature observables of a CFT can be described by a local effective action for background fields -- a "thermal effective action." This effective action determines the asymptotic density of states of a CFT as a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Nathan Benjamin , Jaeha Lee , Hirosi Ooguri , David Simmons-Duffin

This review provides an overview of thermal effects on hadron properties, focusing on the theoretical frameworks used to describe in-medium modifications of masses, decay widths, and spectral functions. We examine the application of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Juan M. Torres-Rincon , Glòria Montaña

In this work we study the Unruh temperature as arising from tunneling through a barrier for an observer in flat Minkowski spacetime with arbitrary acceleration $a(t)$. For the defining case of constant acceleration $a(t) = a_0$, the Unruh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Paul M. Alsing