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The Unruh effect can be formulated as the statement that the Minkowski vacuum in a Rindler wedge has a boost as its modular flow. In recent years, other examples of states with geometrically local modular flow have played important roles in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Jonathan Sorce

We construct a smooth trajectory in Minkowski spacetime that is inertial in the asymptotic past and future but undergoes approximately uniform acceleration for a finite duration. In a suitable limit, this trajectory reduces to the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Nitesh K. Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

The purpose of this review is to provide a pedagogical development of the Unruh effect and the thermofield double state. In Section 2, we construct Rindler spacetime and analyze the perspective of an observer undergoing constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Gustavo Valdivia-Mera

When a quantum particle traverses a rectangular potential created by a quantum field both photon exchange and entanglement between particle and field take place. We present analytic results for the transition amplitudes of any possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Georg Sulyok , Katharina Durstberger-Rennhofer , Johann Summhammer

We initiate an investigation into features of vacuum entanglement as probed by accelerated quantum probes in curved spacetime. Focussing specifically on de Sitter (dS) spacetime with curvature $\Lambda$, we obtain several exact results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mayank , K. Hari , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala

We reassess the problem of symmetry restoration induced by observers' acceleration within the context of interacting quantum field theories in Minkowski spacetime. We argue that the imposition of a frame-independent renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Domenico Giuseppe Salluce , Marco Pasini , Antonino Flachi , Antonio Pittelli , Stefano Ansoldi

We study the time-dependence of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one at rest in a Minkowski frame, the other non-uniformly accelerated in some specified way. The two detectors each couple to a scalar quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 David C. M. Ostapchuk , Shih-Yuin Lin , Robert B. Mann , B. L. Hu

The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration $a$ experiences Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state in the temperature $T_{\text{lin}} = a/(2\pi)$, operationally measurable via the detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Steffen Biermann , Sebastian Erne , Cisco Gooding , Jorma Louko , Jörg Schmiedmayer , William G. Unruh , Silke Weinfurtner

Moving cavities promise to be a suitable system for relativistic quantum information processing. It has been shown that an inertial and a uniformly accelerated one-dimensional cavity can become entangled by letting an atom emit an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bartosz Regula , Antony R. Lee , Andrzej Dragan , Ivette Fuentes

We observe that the transition probability in a static two-level quantum detector interacting with a coherent Rindler photon is different from the same of the Rindler detector which is in interaction with a coherent Minkowski photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Pradeep Kumar Kumawat , Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We discuss different physical effects related to the uniform acceleration of atoms in vacuum, in the framework of quantum electrodynamics. We first investigate the van der Waals/Casimir-Polder dispersion and resonance interactions between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 M. Lattuca , J. Marino , A. Noto , R. Passante , L. Rizzuto , S. Spagnolo , W. Zhou

We review some quantum electrodynamical effects related to the uniform acceleration of atoms in vacuum. After discussing the energy level shifts of a uniformly accelerated atom in vacuum, we investigate the atom-wall Casimir-Polder force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Jamir Marino , Antonio Noto , Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Salvatore Spagnolo

Gravitational perturbations of flat Minkowski space make the Rindler horizon dynamical: the horizon satisfies mechanical laws analogous to the ones followed by black holes. We describe the gravitational perturbation of Minkowski space using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-19 Eugenio Bianchi , Alejandro Satz

We compute the quantum radiation emitted by wavepackets of relativistic single electrons, both at rest and undergoing uniform acceleration in the Minkowski vacuum of the electromagnetic field. We find that the cubic terms in the original…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Shih-Yuin Lin , Bei-Lok Hu

We study the accelerated motion of mirrors and the photonic Unruh effect. The solutions of Maxwell's equations with appropriate boundary conditions in Rindler coordinates are found. The canonical quantization of the field is carried out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-21 E. Sadurní , M. A. Estévez , J. L. Díaz-Cruz

In this paper, we use the Weisskopf-Wigner theory to study the entanglement in the state of the free-space radiation field produced from vacuum due to atomic decay. We show how bipartite entanglement is shared between different partitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. F. Leandro , F. L. Semião

We consider a photonic crystal (PC) doped with four-level atoms whose intermediate transition is coupled near-resonantly with a photonic band-gap edge. We show that two photons, each coupled to a different atomic transition in such atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 David Petrosyan , Gershon Kurizki

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector that is coupled linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field in Minkowski spacetimes of dimension $d\ge2$ and on the static Minkowski cylinder in spacetime dimension two, allowing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-20 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint

The entanglement between two modes of the free scalar and Dirac fields as seen by two relatively accelerated observers has been investigated. It is found that the same initial entanglement for an initial state parameter $\alpha$ and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

We study the dynamics of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one stationary (Alice), and another uniformly accelerating (Rob), with no direct interaction but coupled to a common quantum field in (3+1)D Minkowski space.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-01 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu