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We propose a scheme to detect the Unruh effect in a circularly rotated Unruh-DeWitt detector enclosed within a cylindrical cavity. This technique relies on the enhanced atomic spontaneous emission rate related to the counter-rotating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Hong-Tao Zheng , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Since quantum field theories do not possess proper position observables, Unruh-DeWitt detector models serve as a key theoretical tool for extracting localized spatio-temporal information from quantum fields. Most studies have been limited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Daniel Hümmer , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

We study Unruh phenomena for a qudit detector coupled to a quantized scalar field, comparing its response to that of a standard qubit-based Unruh-DeWitt detector. We show that there are limitations to the utility of the detailed balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Caroline Lima , Everett Patterson , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

In pursuit of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, operational approaches offer insights into quantum-gravitational effects produced by quantum superposition of different spacetimes not diffeomorphic to one another. Recent work applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Lakshay Goel , Everett A. Patterson , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Mahdi Torabian , Robert B. Mann , Niayesh Afshordi

Unruh-deWitt detectors have been utilised widely as probes for quantum particles, entanglement and spacetime curvature. Here, we extend the standard treatment of an Unruh-deWitt detector interacting with a massless, scalar field to include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Joshua Foo , Sho Onoe , Magdalena Zych

Inspired by quantum gravity frameworks predicting Planck-scale deviations from Lorentz invariance, we probe Lorentz symmetry violation via modified dispersion relations $\omega_{|\textbf{k}|}$. Departing from conventional approaches, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Hao Xu

We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

We investigate the Unruh-Fulling effect in a class of nonlocal field theories by examining both the number operator and Unruh-DeWitt detector methods. Unlike in previous literature, we use Unruh quantization to quantize the matter field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In this paper, we consider the decoherence patterns of a topological qubit made of two Majorana zero modes in the generic linear and circular motions in the Minkowski spacetime. We show that the reduced dynamics is exact without Markov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pei-Hua Liu , Feng-Li Lin

We present simple arguments that detectors moving with constant acceleration (even acceleration for a finite time) should detect particles. The effect is seen to be universal. Moreover, detectors undergoing linear acceleration and uniform,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil T. Akhmedov , Douglas Singleton

In this study, we investigate the decoherence of a spatially superposed electrically neutral spin-$\frac12$ particle in the presence of a relativistic quantum electromagnetic field in Minkowski spacetime. We demonstrate that decoherence due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

An object moving with the acceleration will change the temperature of environment around it, because of the presence of the Unruh thermal effect. In this work, we investigate the impact of Unruh thermal noise on the quantum-memory-assisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu-Kun Zhang , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

We investigate how entangled inertial Unruh-DeWitt detectors are affected by interaction with a quantum field using a nonperturbative method. Inertial detectors in a $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann

We have studied the decoherence mechanism in a fermion and scalar quantum field theory with the Yukawa interaction in the Minkowski spacetime, using the non-equilibrium effective field theory formalism appropriate for open systems. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Sourav Bhattacharya , Nitin Joshi , Shagun Kaushal

Quantum uncertainty is deeply linked to quantum correlations and relativistic motion. The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum memory offers a powerful way to study how shared entanglement affects measurement precision. However, under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ming-Ming Du , Hong-Wei Li , Shu-Ting Shen , Xiao-Jing Yan , Xi-Yun Li , Lan Zhou , Wei Zhong , Yu-Bo Sheng

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

As it is well known, the Minkowski vacuum appears thermally populated to a quantum mechanical detector on a uniformly accelerating course. We investigate how this thermal radiation may contribute to the classical nature of the detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 J. - G. Demers

Anti-de Sitter spacetime and the static patch of de Sitter spacetime are arenas for investigating thermal and finite-size effects seen by an accelerated quantum observer. We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector in uniform circular motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-26 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Jorma Louko

We analyze the two-photon emission process of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. Using second-order perturbation theory, we derive the exact final quantum state of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Arash Azizi

We consider two-level detectors coupled to a scalar field and moving on arbitrary trajectories in Minkowski space-time. We first derive a generic expression for the response function using a (novel) regularization procedure based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Obadia , M. Milgrom
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