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In this paper, we investigate the quantum coherence extraction {between} two accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors, coupling to a scalar field in $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We find that quantum coherence as a nonclassical…

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We investigate unitarily inequivalent representations of the algebra of operators in quantum field theory in the cases where there is a Fock representation of the commutation relations. We examine more closely the operational definition of…

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We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

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

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 effects of motion for an Unruh-DeWitt detector, modeled as a two-level system, on the amount of coherence extracted, when it interacts with a massless scalar coherent field in 1+1 Minkowski spacetime. We observe that compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos , Kostas Blekos

We study the generalized Unruh effect for accelerated reference frames that include rotation in addition to acceleration. We focus particularly on the case where the motion is planar, with presence of a static limit in addition to the event…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Ivar Korsbakken , Jon Magne Leinaas

The Unruh effect predicts an astonishing phenomenon that an accelerated detector would detect counts despite being in a quantum field vacuum in the rest frame. Since the required detector acceleration for its direct observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xu Cheng , Yue Li , Zehua Tian , Xingyu Zhao , Xi Qin , Yiheng Lin

It was suggested by Unruh that a uniformly accelerated detector in vacuum would perceive a noise with a thermal distribution. We obtain a representation of solutions of the wave equation in two dimensions suitable for the Rindler regions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-28 I. Ya. Aref'eva , I. V. Volovich

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 investigate the quantum correlations and coherence of two accelerating Unruh-deWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in 3 + 1 Minkowski space-time. We show that the entanglement is completely destroyed in the limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Muthuganesan , R. Radha

We consider two-level detectors coupled to a scalar field and moving on arbitrary trajectories in Minkowski space-time. We first derive a generic expression for the response function using a (novel) regularization procedure based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Obadia , M. Milgrom

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 derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix of a uniformly accelerating quantum detector in arbitrary dimensions, generically coupled to a field initially in its vacuum state, and analyze its late time regime. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Julio Arrechea , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

We investigate the response function of an inertial Unruh-deWitt detector in an impulsive plane wave spacetime. Through symmetry considerations applied to the Wightman function, we demonstrate that the response function remains invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 João Paulo M. Pitelli , 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

One of the primary reasons behind the difficulty in observing the Unruh effect is that for achievable acceleration scales the finite temperature effects are significant only for the low frequency modes of the field. Since the density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 D. Jaffino Stargen , Kinjalk Lochan

We consider the response of an Unruh detector to scalar fields in an expanding space-time. When combining transition elements of the scalar field Hamiltonian with the interaction operator of detector and field, one finds at second order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

The Unruh effect establishes a fundamental equivalence between acceleration and thermality by demonstrating that a uniformly accelerated ground-state detector undergoes excitation as if immersed in a thermal bath. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu