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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

We consider a continuous-variable quantum teleportation protocol between a uniformly accelerated sender in the right Rindler wedge, a conformal receiver restricted to the future light cone, and an inertial observer in the Minkowski vacuum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Joshua Foo , Timothy C. Ralph

An observer with a finite lifetime $\mathcal{T}$ perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state at temperature $T_D = 2 \hbar/(\pi \mathcal{T})$, as a result of being constrained to a double-coned-shaped region known as a causal diamond.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 H. E. Camblong , A. Chakraborty , P. Lopez-Duque , C. R. Ordóñez

We study the Unruh effect for an observer with a finite lifetime, using the thermal time hypothesis. The thermal time hypothesis maintains that: (i) time is the physical quantity determined by the flow defined by a state over an observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Martinetti , C. Rovelli

An accelerating Rindler frame in Minkowski spacetime acting for a finite time interval is used to carry a box of particles or waves between two relativistic inertial frames. The finite spatial extent of the box allows treatment of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Timothy H Boyer

We show that the particle-number distribution of diamond modes, modes that are localized in a finite space-time region, are thermal for the Minkowski vacuum state of a massless scalar field, an analogue to the Unruh effect. The temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Daiqin Su , T. C. Ralph

We derive the solutions of gravitational waves in the future (F) expanding and the past (P) shrinking Kanser spacetimes as well as in the left (L) and right (R) Rindler wedges in the Regge-Wheeler gauge. The solutions for all metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Yuuki Sugiyama , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Inspired by the novel idea proposed by T.~Padmanabhan in \textit{Phys.\ Rev.\ D 100, 045024 (2019)}, we develop a method to uncover the hidden thermal properties of the inertial Feynman propagator in Minkowski spacetime in a causally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Nada Eissa , Carlos R. Ordóñez , Gustavo Valdivia-Mera

Considering two accelerated observers with same acceleration in two timelike wedges of Rindler frame we calculate the Feynman-{\it like} propagators for a real scalar field in a thermal bath with respect to the Minkowski vacuum. Only the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

A detector undergoing a huge acceleration measures a thermal distribution with the Unruh temperature out of the Minkowski vacuum. Though such huge accelerations occur naturally in astrophysics and gravity, one may design untraintense laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-08 Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

We examine the influence of the dispersion relation on the Unruh effect by Lorentz boosting the phase of Minkowski vacuum fluctuations endowed with an arbitrary dispersion relation. We find that, unlike what happens with a linear dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 F. Hammad , A. Landry , D. Dijamco

In Minkowski spacetime quantum field theory, each stationary motion is associated with an effective, energy-dependent notion of temperature, which generalises the familiar Unruh temperature of uniform linear acceleration. Motivated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-16 Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko

Using the Zubarev quantum-statistical density operator, we calculated the corrections to the energy-momentum tensor of a massless fermion gas associated with acceleration. It is shown that when fourth-order corrections are taken into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 George Y. Prokhorov , Oleg V. Teryaev , Valentin I. Zakharov

Thermal fluctuations for a massive scalar field in the Rindler wedge are obtained by applying the point-splitting procedure to the zero temperature Feynman propagator in a conical spacetime. Renormalization is implemented by removing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Medina , E. S. Moreira , jr

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

In the lack of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, I consider free, scalar, quantum fields on curved spacetimes to gain insight into the interaction between quantum and gravitational phenomena. I employ the Unruh-DeWitt detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-21 Lissa de Souza Campos

We consider coordinate systems adapted to accelerated observers, construct a generalised Rindler metric and then adopt a specific form of it to compute the semiclassical Unruh temperature, using a WKB approximation within a Hamilton Jacobi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 Rabin Banerjee , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Debraj Roy

In thermal quantum field theory, the global Liouvillian (the generator of time translations) is passive. How is this reflected in the properties of its local density, a quantum field? We propose that the locally averaged density is bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Henning Bostelmann , Daniela Cadamuro , Leonardo Sangaletti

We explicitly express the Minkowski vacuum of a massless scalar field in terms of the particle notion associated with suitable spherical conformal killing fields. These fields are orthogonal to the light wavefronts originating from a sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Alejandro Perez , Salvatore Ribisi

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