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One of the primary reasons behind the difficulty in observing the Unruh effect is that for achievable acceleration scales the finite temperature effects are significant only for the low frequency modes of the field. Since the density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

We study correlations between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cylindrical cavity. Boundary conditions strongly modify the detector-correlation dynamics relative to free space. The entanglement negativity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Shagun Kaushal , Harkirat Singh Sahota

We study a uniformly accelerated detector coupled to a massless scalar field for a finite time interval. By considering the detector initially prepared in a superposition state, qubit state, we find that the acceleration induces decoherence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Helder A. S. Costa

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

Recently, interest has been growing in studies on discrete or "pixelated" space-time that, through modifications in the dispersion relation, can treat the vacuum as a dispersive medium. Discrete spacetime considers that spacetime has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Pedro H. M. Barros , Helder A. S. Costa

The Unruh effect remains a central topic in quantum field theory, although its direct experimental verification continues to be challenging. Recent efforts have therefore focused on indirect detection strategies in which the Unruh effect…

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

We explore the quantum coherence between a pair of entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors, interacting with a quantum field, using a nonperturbative approach in a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Wentao Liu

In this paper, we investigate the quantum correlations and coherence of two accelerating Unruh-deWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in 3 + 1 Minkowski space-time. We show that the entanglement is completely destroyed in the limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Muthuganesan , R. Radha

We quantify the quantum correlations between two accelerated detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cavity. It has been realized that an accelerated detector will experience a thermal bath, which is termed the Unruh effect. We examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 He Wang , Jin Wang

Some of the most prominent theoretical predictions of modern times, e.g., the Unruh effect, Hawking radiation, and gravity-assisted particle creation, are supported by the fact that various quantum constructs like particle content and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Kinjalk Lochan , Hendrik Ulbricht , Andrea Vinante , Sandeep K. Goyal

Probing quantumness in curved spacetime is regarded as one of fundamental and important topics in the framework of relativistic quantum information. In this work, we focus on the theoretical feasibility of probing quantum properties in de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

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

Decoherence is the process via which quantum superpositions states are reduced to classical mixtures. Decoherence has been predicted for relativistically accelerated quantum systems, however examples to date have involved restricting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Daiqin Su , Timothy C. Ralph

Employing a non-perturbative approach based on an instantaneous interaction between a two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector and a massive scalar field, we investigate the ability of the field to generate or destroy coherence in the detector by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 N. K. Kollas , D. Moustos , M. R. Muñoz

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

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

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

Bodies in relative motion, spatially separated in vacuum, experience a tiny friction force known as quantum friction. This force has eluded experimental detection so far due to its small magnitude and short range. Herein, we give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ludmila Viotti , Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

The quantum detection of spacetime conicity was investigated in reference [Phys. Lett. B 820, 136482 (2021)] through the analysis of the response function of an Unruh-deWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field. In particular, it was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Jefferson Monção da Silva , João Paulo M. Pitelli
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