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The thermal spectrum seen by accelerated observers in Minkowski space - known as the Unruh effect - is derived within the tunneling mechanism. This is a new result in this mechanism and it completes the treatment of Unruh effect via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Debraj Roy

Assuming that an accelerated observer with four-velocity ${\bf u}_{\rm R}$ in a curved spacetime attributes the standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and Unruh temperature to his "local Rindler horizon", we show that the $\rm \it change$ in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Dawood Kothawala

It is found that the Unruh effect can not only arise out of the entanglement between two sets of modes spanning the left and right Rindler wedges, but also between modes spanning the future and past light cones. Furthermore, an inertial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-13 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

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

We consider the case of a pair of particles initially in a superposition state corresponding to a separated pair of wave packets. We calculate \emph{exactly} the time development of this non-Gaussian state due to interaction with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

We study one-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a spatially-varying Dirac velocity $v(x)$, that can form an approximate lab-based Rindler Hamiltonian describing an observer accelerating in Minkowski spacetime. A sudden switch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Khristian B. Tallent , Daniel E. Sheehy

We investigate the radiative processes involving two entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors that are moving on circular trajectories in $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We assume that the detectors are coupled to a massless, quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , L. Sriramkumar

A great deal of evidence has been mounting over the years showing a deep connection between acceleration, radiation, and the Unruh effect. Indeed, the fact that the Unruh effect can be codified in the Larmor radiation emitted by the charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Felipe Portales-Oliva , André G. S. Landulfo

It is shown how the technique of restricted path integrals (RPI) or quantum corridors (QC) may be applied for the analysis of relativistic measurements. Then this technique is used to clarify the physical nature of thermal effects as seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael B. Mensky

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

We aim to study the thermodynamic properties of the spherically symmetric reference frames with uniform acceleration, including the spherically symmetric generalization of Rindler reference frame and the new kind of uniformly accelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chao-Guang Huang , Jia-Rui Sun

A detector undergoing uniform acceleration $a$ in a vacuum field responds just as though it were immersed in thermal radiation of temperature $T=\hbar a/2\pi k c$. A simple, intuitive derivation of this result is given for the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul M. Alsing , Peter W. Milonni

We study the Lamb shift of both freely-falling and static two-level atoms in interaction with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar fields in the de Sitter-invariant vacuum. We find that the Lamb shifts of both freely-falling and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

The uncertainty principle restricts our ability to simultaneously predict the measurement outcomes of two incompatible observables of a quantum particle. However, this uncertainty could be reduced and quantified by a new Entropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Lijuan Jia , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

We model the situation in which a photon detector moves with constant velocity in a Minkowski heat-bath by considering an Unruh-DeWitt detector, with variable energy gap $\hbar \omega$, moving on a brane, at a non-zero (Unruh) temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-05 Jorge G. Russo , Paul K. Townsend

The interplay between acceleration and radiation harbors remarkable and surprising consequences. One of the most striking is that the Larmor radiation emitted by a charge can be seen as a consequence of the Unruh thermal bath. Indeed, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Andre G. S. Landulfo , Stephen A. Fulling , George E. A. Matsas

In this paper, we revisit the interpretation of the circular Unruh effect. To this aim, we rely on the principle of general covariance applied to the decay properties of non-inertial particles. Specifically, we show how the tree-level decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Luciano Petruzziello , Martin B. Plenio

We present a method for relating the transition rate of an accelerated Unruh-deWitt detector to the rate of the same detector when stationary in Minkowski space. Furthermore, we show that when using the detector as a model for decay, its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Wim Beenakker , David Venhoek

This paper presents a novel theoretical model to simulate the Unruh temperature by relating it to the critical temperature of multiple Bose-Einstein thermal baths. These thermal baths are conceptualized as snapshots of a Bose-Firework…

Entropic-force cosmology provides, in contrast with dark energy descriptions, a concrete physical understanding of the accelerated expansion of the universe. The acceleration appears to be a consequence of the entropy associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-15 D. J. Zamora , C. Tsallis
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