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Previous studies have shown that the Unruh effect completely destroys quantum entanglement and coherence of bipartite states, as modeled by entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors. But does the Unruh effect have a different impact on quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Si-Han Li , Si-Han Shang , Shu-Min Wu

The Unruh effect can be correctly treated only by using the Minkowski quantization and a model of a "particle" detector, not by using the Rindler quantization. The energy produced by a detector accelerated only for a short time can be much…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nikolic

We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Yuki Osawa , Yasusada Nambu

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

Applications of Unruh-Fulling (UF) effect are well studied in literature via the interaction of Unruh-DeWitt (UD) detector and {\it single} scalar field. In this work, we investigate a toy model, where the detector is interacting {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We consider a pair of two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors accelerated uniformly in the Minkowski vacuum of a massless neutral scalar field, and analyze, within the perturbation theory, the entanglement extracted from the vacuum into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jun-ichirou Koga , Kengo Maeda , Gen Kimura

We investigate the interplay between quantum thermodynamics, quantum correlations, and quantum coherence within the framework of the Unruh-DeWitt (UdW) detector model. By analyzing both the steady and dynamical states of various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Omar Bachain , Mohamed Amazioug , Rachid Ahl Laamara

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

The Unruh effect predicts that a uniformly accelerating observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath, yet direct observation remains elusive [1]. We simulate Unruh radiation in realistic high-intensity laser-electron collisions relevant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-10 Rafi Hessami , Haidar Al-Naseri , Monika Yadav , Maanas Hemanth Oruganti , Brian Naranjo , James Rosenzweig

A uniformly accelerated detector in an inertial vacuum undergoes an unavoidable dissipation, and the final steady-state becomes thermal. However, to attain such a mixed state, there is no bound for the acceleration of the single atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Saptarshi Saha , Arpan Chatterjee , Chiranjeeb Singha

We discuss different physical effects related to the uniform acceleration of atoms in vacuum, in the framework of quantum electrodynamics. We first investigate the van der Waals/Casimir-Polder dispersion and resonance interactions between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 M. Lattuca , J. Marino , A. Noto , R. Passante , L. Rizzuto , S. Spagnolo , W. Zhou

Detecting the Unruh effect is a major challenge in fundamental physics. It is known that exciting massive fields with the Unruh thermal bath is heavily suppressed when the field's rest energy is much larger than the acceleration energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Vladimir Toussaint

We study a type of an Unruh-DeWitt-like detector based on a vector rather than scalar field. This detector has two energy states and produces Larmor radiation when there is no energy gap between them. This setup indicates that Larmor…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 De-Chang Dai

The goal of quantum metrology is the exploitation of quantum resources, like entanglement or quantum coherence, in the fundamental task of parameter estimation. Here we consider the question of the estimation of the Unruh temperature in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Danilo Borim , Lucas C. Céleri , Vasileios I. Kiosses

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 investigate the back-action from a spatially pointlike particle detector on a quantum scalar field, as characterised by the expectation value of the field's stress-energy tensor, without conditioning on a measurement of the detector.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Adam S. Wilkinson , Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko , William G. Unruh

The Unruh effect, predicting a thermal reservoir for accelerating systems, calls for a more refined understanding of measurement processes involving quantum systems as thermometers. Conventional models fail to account for the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 M. Cardi , P. Solinas , N. Zanghì

We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless Dirac field. Assuming that the detector is moving along an hyperbolic trajectory, we modeled the effects of fluctuations in the event horizon using a Dirac equation with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 C. H. G. Bessa , J. G. Duenas , N. F. Svaiter

We identify low-acceleration conditions under which the Unruh effect manifests as an early superradiant burst in a collection of excited atoms. The resulting amplified Unruh signal is resolved from the inertial signal both in time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Akhil Deswal , Navdeep Arya , Kinjalk Lochan , Sandeep K. Goyal

The Unruh effect, central to quantum field theory in curved spacetime, states that uniformly accelerated observers perceive the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal ensemble of Rindler excitations. Building on this foundation and drawing analogies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Kevin Player