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The Unruh effect predicts an astonishing phenomenon that an accelerated detector would detect counts despite being in a quantum field vacuum in the rest frame. Since the required detector acceleration for its direct observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xu Cheng , Yue Li , Zehua Tian , Xingyu Zhao , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin

In this essay we examine the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector (a quantum two-level system) to a gravitational wave background. The spectrum of the Unruh-Dewitt detector is of the same form as some scattering processes or three body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Preston Jones , Douglas Singleton

We study the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

We revisit the Unruh effect to investigate how finite acceleration would affect a scalar condensate. We discuss a negative thermal-like correction associated with acceleration. From the correspondence between thermo-field dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Sanjin Benic , Kenji Fukushima

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

We investigate the quantization of a single unstable mode in a real scalar field subject to a Robin boundary condition in (1+1)-dimensional half-Minkowski spacetime. The instability arises from an imaginary frequency mode - analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Bruno S. Felipe , João P. M. Pitelli

Scalar field dark matter offers an interesting alternative to the traditional WIMP dark matter picture. Astrophysical and cosmological simulations are useful to constraining the mass of the dark matter particle in this model. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Andrew Eberhardt , Alvaro Zamora , Michael Kopp , Tom Abel

In this Letter we study the radiation measured by an accelerated detector, coupled to a scalar field, in the presence of a fundamental minimal length. The latter is implemented by means of a modified momentum space Green's function. After…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 Piero Nicolini , Massimiliano Rinaldi

The quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is central to multiparameter quantum metrology, dictating the attainable sensitivity via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we investigate the ultimate precision limits for…

The Unruh effect is the prediction that particle detectors accelerated through the vacuum get excited by the apparent presence of radiation quanta -- a fundamental quantum phenomenon in the presence of acceleration. Prior treatments of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Vivishek Sudhir , Nadine Stritzelberger , Achim Kempf

Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a bifurcating Killing horizon. Such an effect can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Levy B. N. Batista , André G. S. Landulfo , Robert B. Mann , George E. A. Matsas

We analyse the excitations and de-excitations of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector in the $(1+1)$-dimensional expanding Milne cosmology with compact spatial sections, coupled to a real massless scalar field with either untwisted or twisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Adam S. Wilkinson , Jorma Louko

Quantum coherence, a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics, plays a crucial role in various quantum information tasks. However, preserving coherence under extreme conditions, such as relativistic acceleration, poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Hong-Wei Li , Yi-Hao Fan , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du

We show that the Unruh response can be interferometrically suppressed or restored in a single Unruh--DeWitt detector whose center-of-mass is prepared in a coherent superposition of two uniformly accelerated worldlines. The two paths remain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Arash Azizi

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 it is explicitly demonstrated that the energy conservation law is kept when a detector uniformly accelerated in the Minkowski vacuum is excited and emits a particle. This fact had been hidden in conventional approaches in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Riuji Mochizuki , Takayuki Suga

We show how two Unruh-DeWitt detectors that do not couple to the zero mode of a quantum field can exchange information faster than the speed of light. We analyze the specific cases of periodic and Neumann boundary conditions in flat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Erickson Tjoa , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We explore entanglement harvesting using two Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors linearly coupled to the scalar density of a massless spin-1/2 field in 1+1 Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider different vacua, including the Boulware,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Nitesh Kumar Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

The Unruh effect establishes a fundamental equivalence between acceleration and thermality by demonstrating that a uniformly accelerated ground-state detector undergoes excitation as if immersed in a thermal bath. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

We make use of the tools of quantum information theory to shed light on the Unruh effect. A modal qubit appears as if subjected to quantum noise that degrades quantum information, as observed in the accelerated reference frame. The Unruh…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 S. Omkar , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth , Ashutosh Kumar Alok