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We introduce a method to compute particle detector transition probability in spacetime regions of general curved spacetimes provided that the curvature is not above a maximum threshold. In particular we use this method to compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Aida Ahmadzadegan , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Robert B. Mann

The seminar discovery by Gibbons and Hawking that a freely falling detector observes an isotropic background of thermal radiation reveals that de Sitter space is equivalent to a thermal bath at the Gibbons-Hawking temperature in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu

We find the response function and the transition rate for an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a conformal scalar field in global two-dimensional anti--de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with different boundary conditions at its conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Bruno S. Felipe , Ricardo A. Mosna

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

We examine the behavior of correlation functions for a massless scalar field in de Sitter space with a quartic interaction. We find that two-loop corrections are relevant, and that the resummation of these corrections generates a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Arvind Rajaraman

The symmetric two-point function for a massless, minimally coupled scalar field in the Unruh state is examined for Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime in two dimensions. This function grows linearly in terms of a time coordinate that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-03 Paul R. Anderson , Zachary P. Scofield , Jennie Traschen

We study the response of a rotating monopole detector that is coupled to a massless scalar field which is described by a non-linear dispersion relation in flat spacetime. Since it does not seem to be possible to evaluate the response of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Sashideep Gutti , Shailesh Kulkarni , L. Sriramkumar

We consider the vacuum response of a particle detector in Anti-de Sitter spacetime, and in particular analyze how spacetime features such as curvature and dimensionality affect the response spectrum of an accelerated detector. We calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 David Jennings

We study the dynamics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes whose metric is characterised by a single metric function $f(r)$. In order to obtain clean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

The study of physical effects of quatum fields in black hole spacetimes, which is related to questions such as the validity of the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, requires a Hadamard state describing the physical situation. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Christiane Klein

The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

The response of the Unruh-DeWitt type monopole detectors which were coupled to the quantum field only for a finite proper time interval is studied for inertial and accelerated trajectories, in the Minkowski vacuum in (3+1) dimensions. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Sriramkumar , T. Padmanabhan

We apply the master equation with dynamical coarse graining approximation to a pair of detectors interacting with a scalar field. By solving the master equation numerically, we investigate evolution of negativity between comoving detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shingo Kukita , Yasusada Nambu

A quantum field theoretical approach, in which a quantum probe is used to investigate the properties generic non-flat FLRW space-times is discussed. The probe is identified with a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Yevgeniya Rabochaya , Sergio Zerbini

We find that a uniformly accelerated particle detector coupled to the vacuum can cool down as its acceleration increases, due to relativistic effects. We show that in (1+1)-dimensions, a detector coupled to the scalar field vacuum for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Wilson G. Brenna , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We investigate entanglement of a quantum field in de Sitter spacetime using a particle detector model. By considering the entanglement between two comoving detectors interacting with a scalar field, it is possible to detect the entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yasusada Nambu

The Unruh effect refers to the thermal fluctuations a detector experiences while undergoing linear motion with uniform acceleration in a Minkowski vacuum. This thermality can be demonstrated by tracing the vacuum state of the field over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Jason Doukas , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu , Robert B. Mann

We study the influence of the thermal background on the existence of the anti-Unruh effect. For the massless scalar field, we present that the anti-Unruh effect can appear when the detector is accelerated in the thermal field, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector that is coupled linearly to the scalar density of a massless Dirac field in Minkowski spacetimes of dimension $d\ge2$ and on the static Minkowski cylinder in spacetime dimension two, allowing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-20 Jorma Louko , Vladimir Toussaint

We study the classical radiation emitted by free-falling charges in de Sitter spacetime coupled to different kinds of fields. Specifically we consider the cases of the electromagnetic field, linearized gravity and scalar fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-11 E. T. Akhmedov , Albert Roura , A. Sadofyev