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We investigate the quantum radiation produced by an Unruh-De Witt detector in a uniformly accelerating motion coupled to the vacuum fluctuations. Quantum radiation is nonvanishing, which is consistent with the previous calculation by Lin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Satoshi Iso , Naritaka Oshita , Rumi Tatsukawa , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

The Unruh effect is the phenomenon that accelerated observers detect particles even when inertial observers experience the vacuum state. In particular, uniformly accelerated observers are predicted to measure thermal radiation that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Luis C. Barbado , Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Luca Apadula , Časlav Brukner

While the Unruh effect has traditionally been studied under the assumption of uniform acceleration, a simplification motivated by experimental considerations, it is not necessarily true for all non-inertial motions. We propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Manuel de Atocha Rodríguez Fernández , Alexander I. Nesterov , Gennady P. Berman , C. Moreno-González

We study the finite time response of an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector described by a qubit (two-level system) moving with uniform constant acceleration in maximally symmetric spacetimes. The $D$ dimensional massless fermionic response…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Shahnewaz Ahmed , Mir Mehedi Faruk , Muktadir Rahman

We study the radiation emitted by inertial charge evolving on the expanding de Sitter spacetime. Performing a perturbative calculation, within scalar quantum electrodynamics (sQED), we obtain the transition amplitude for the process and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert Blaga , Sergiu Busuioc

In this paper we analyze the interaction of a uniformly accelerated detector with a quantum field in (3+1)D spacetime, aiming at the issue of how kinematics can render vacuum fluctuations the appearance of thermal radiance in the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We study the response of a uniformly accelerated detector modeled by a two-level atom nonlinearly coupled to vacuum massless Rarita-Schwinger fields. We first generalize the formalism developed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Qinglin Li , Hongwei Yu , Wenting Zhou

We consider a particle detector model on 1+1-dimensional Minkowski space-time that is accelerated by a constant external acceleration a. The detector is coupled to a massless scalar test field. Due to the Unruh effect, this detector becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Franz Thoma

In this study, we investigate the signature of the Unruh effect in quantum radiation from an accelerated charged particle interacting with vacuum fluctuations. Because a charged particle in uniformly accelerated motion exhibits thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

We consider inertial and accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving in a background thermal bath and calculate their excitation rates. It is shown that for fast moving detectors such a thermal bath does not affect substantially the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Sandro S. Costa , George E. A. Matsas

It has been known for some time that the classical concept of radiation is not covariant: for uniformly accelerated particles, it depends on the state of motion of the observer relative to the particle emitting it. Moreover, recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Felipe Ignacio Portales Oliva

We investigate the transition of a two-level atom as the Unruh-Dewitt detector accelerated in the electromagnetic field in this paper. The enhancement of the transition probability is found for different field states under the conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

It is well known that a detector, coupled linearly to a quantum field and accelerating through the inertial vacuum with a constant acceleration $g$, will behave as though it is immersed in a radiation field with temperature $T=(g/2\pi)$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dawood Kothawala , T. Padmanabhan

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

Total entropy generated by the Unruh effect is calculated within the framework of information theory. In contrast to previous studies, here the calculations are done for the finite time of existence of the non-inertial reference frame. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 M. V. Teslyk , O. M. Teslyk , L. V. Zadorozhna , L. Bravina , E. Zabrodin

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector which couples linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field on the static cylindrical quotient of the (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, allowing the detector's motion to remain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint

A simple but powerful particle detector model consists of a two-level system coupled to a field, where the detected particles are the field excitations. This is known as the Unruh-DeWitt detector. Research using this model has often focused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Carolyn E. Wood , Magdalena Zych

A modified version of the Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator scheme is introduced and analyzed, which is based on autoresonant phase-locking of the nonlinear Langmuir wave to the slowly chirped beat frequency of the driving lasers via adiabatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. R. Lindberg , A. E. Charman , J. S. Wurtele , L. Friedland

Acceleration radiation - or Unruh radiation - the thermal radiation observed by an ever accelerating observer or detector, although having similarities to Hawking radiation, so far has proved extremely challenging to observe experimentally.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Brian P. Dolan , Aonghus Hunter-McCabe , Jason Twamley