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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

We study the two-path interference of single-particle pulses measured by the Unruh-DeWitt-type quantum detector, which itself is a quantum state as well as the incoming pulse, and of which the interaction with the pulse is described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Bo-Hung Chen , Tsung-Wei Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou

We construct analogues for the quantum phenomena of black hole radiation in the context of {\it classical field theory}. Hawking radiation from a (radially) collapsing star is mathematically equivalent to radiation from a mirror moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Srinivasan , T. Padmanabhan

The appearance of the inertial vacuum state in Rindler frame has been extensively studied in the literature, both from the point of view of QFT developed using Rindler foliation and using the response of an Unruh-Dewitt Detector (UDD). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-30 Kinjalk Lochan , T. Padmanabhan

Unruh radiation is the thermal flux seen by an accelerated observer moving through Minkowski spacetime. In this article we study Unruh radiation as tunneling through a barrier. We use a WKB-like method to obtain the tunneling rate and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrea de Gill , Douglas Singleton , Valeria Akhmedova , Terry Pilling

If an Unruh-DeWitt detector operates for an infinite proper time along the trajectory of a uniformly accelerated observer in Fock space then induced transition rate of the detector is proportional to Planck distribution. For a realistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-20 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Gopal Sardar

In this manuscript we confirm the presence of a Rindler horizon at CERN-NA63 by exploring its thermodynamics induced by the Unruh effect in their high energy channeling radiation experiments. By linking the entropy of the emitted radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Morgan H. Lynch

Dynamical issues associated with quantum fields in Rindler space are addressed in a study of the interaction between two sources at rest generated by the exchange of scalar particles, photons and gravitons. These static interaction energies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-10 F. Lenz , K. Ohta , K. Yazaki

We investigate the scattering of classical and quantum particles in impulsive backgrounds fields. These fields model short outbursts of radiation propagating with the speed of light. The singular nature of the problem will be accounted for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Herbert Balasin , Peter C. Aichelburg

Response of a circularly rotating Unrh-DeWitt detector to the Minkowski vacuum is investigated. What the detector observes depends on the surface (three volume) to define it by the Hamiltonian. Detectors in the past literature were defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-01 Tadas K Nakamura

We consider the quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror for the massless scalar field in 1+1 Minkowski space. Partial reflectivity is achieved by localizing a delta-type potential at the mirror's position. The radiated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Nistor Nicolaevici

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

The instantaneous transition rate of an arbitrarily accelerated Unruh-DeWitt particle detector on four-dimensional Minkowski space is ill defined without regularisation. We show that Schlicht's regularisation as the zero-size limit of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu

Derived from semi-classical quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Unruh effect was known as a quantum effect. We find that there does exist a classical correspondence of this effect in electrodynamics. The thermal nature of the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shih-Yuin Lin

In this paper we analyze the classical electromagnetic radiation of an accelerating point charge moving on a straight line trajectory. Depending on the duration of accelerations, rapidity distributions of photons emerge, resembling the ones…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-19 Tamas S. Biro , Zsuzsanna Szendi , Zsolt Schram

We present novel methods to numerically address the problem of characterizing the response of particle detectors in curved spacetimes. These methods allow for the integration of the Wightman function, at least in principle, in rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Keith K. Ng , Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

In this work we consider a quantum analog of Newton's bucket experiment in a flat spacetime: we take an Unruh-DeWitt detector in interaction with a real massless scalar field. We calculate the detector's excitation rate when it is uniformly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. M. De Paola , N. F. Svaiter

In this work we study the Unruh temperature as arising from tunneling through a barrier for an observer in flat Minkowski spacetime with arbitrary acceleration $a(t)$. For the defining case of constant acceleration $a(t) = a_0$, the Unruh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Paul M. Alsing

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