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It is well-known that the $(1+1)$ dimensional Schwarzschild and spatially flat FLRW spacetimes are conformally flat. This work examines entanglement harvesting from the conformal field vacuums in these spacetimes between two Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Subhajit Barman , Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study the infrared (large separation) behavior of a massless minimally coupled scalar quantum field theory with a quartic self interaction in de Sitter spacetime. We show that the perturbation series in the interaction strength is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-08 Ahmed Youssef , Dirk Kreimer

The approximate late conformal time wavefunction for self-interacting scalar quantum fields in de Sitter space is computed. It dominates for conformal times much larger than a certain critical value, $\eta=\eta_{\text{crit}}$ which depends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-14 Enrique Alvarez

We give a complete and rigorous proof of the Unruh effect, in the following form. We show that the state of a two-level system, uniformly accelerated with proper acceleration $a$, and coupled to a scalar bose field initially in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. De Bievre , M. Merkli

We consider light scalar fields during inflation and show how the stochastic spectral expansion method can be used to calculate two-point correlation functions of an arbitrary local function of the field in de Sitter space. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-02 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie , Stephen Stopyra , Tommi Tenkanen

We investigate the interaction between a moving detector and a quantum field, especially about how the trajectory of the detector would affect the vacuum fluctuations when the detector is moves in a quantum field (the Unruh effect). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I-Chin Wang

We extend the calculation of the Unruh effect to the universality classes of quantum vacua obeying topologically protected invariance under anisotropic scaling ${\bf r} \rightarrow b {\bf r}$, $t \rightarrow b^z t$. Two situations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 M. I. Katsnelson , G. E. Volovik , M. A. Zubkov

We study symmetry breaking in the static coordinate-system of de Sitter space. This is done with the help of the functional-Schr\"odinger approach used in previous calculations by Ratra [1]. We consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 András Kaiser , Alan Chodos

We study the backreaction on the mean field geometry due to a non-conformal quantum field in a Robertson-Walker background. In the regime of small mass and small deviation from conformal coupling, we compute perturbatively the expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-02 Guillem Pérez-Nadal , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

A free hermitian conformal field theory is considered in Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The first part of the paper studies spacetime inversion and conformal inversion, wherein their role in the field quantization is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-16 Slava Emelyanov

We investigated the influence of the massive scalar field on the information degradation concerning the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors. In this conjecture, we adopted a system with a finite and large interaction time. To accomplish our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 P. H. M. Barros , F. C. E. Lima , C. A. S. Almeida , H. A. S. Costa

Macroscopic concepts pertaining to the Unruh effect are elaborated and used to clarify its physical manifestations. Based on a description of the motion of accelerated, spatially extended laboratories in Minkowski space in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Detlev Buchholz , Rainer Verch

We study the one-loop radiative corrections for massless fermions in de Sitter space induced by a Yukawa coupling to a light, nearly minimally coupled scalar field. We show that the fermions acquire a mass. Next we construct the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

By globally embedding curved spaces into higher dimensional flat ones, we show that Hawking thermal properties map into their Unruh equivalents: The relevant curved space detectors become Rindler ones, whose temperature and entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Orit Levin

Quantum radiated power emitted by an Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector in linear oscillatory motion in (3+1)D Minkowski space, with the internal harmonic oscillator minimally coupled to a massless scalar field, is obtained non-perturbatively by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shih-Yuin Lin

We propose a realizable experiment to test the response of a particle detector prepared in a superposition of locations interacting with a relativistic quantum field. Using a beamsplitter to prepare two superposed branches of a modulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Cisco Gooding , Taylor Cey , Robert Mann

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime. We first obtain a regulator-free expression for the transition probability in an arbitrary Hadamard state, working within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko

It is well known that the experience of a linearly accelerated observer with acceleration $a$, interacting with a massless scalar field in its vacuum state in $3+1$ Minkowski spacetime, is identical to that of a static observer interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-25 Cameron R. D. Bunney , Leo Parry , T. Rick Perche , Jorma Louko

We present the solution space for the case of a minimally coupled scalar field with arbitrary potential in a FLRW metric. This is made possible due to the existence of a nonlocal integral of motion corresponding to the conformal Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 N. Dimakis , A. Karagiorgos , Adamantia Zampeli , Andronikos Paliathanasis , T. Christodoulakis , Petros A. Terzis

In this work we compare the quantization of a massless scalar field in an inertial frame with the quantization in a rotating frame. We used the Trocheries-Takeno mapping to relate measurements in the inertial and the rotating frames. An…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. A. De Lorenci , R. D. M. De Paola , N. F. Svaiter