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We investigate the Unruh-Fulling effect in a class of nonlocal field theories by examining both the number operator and Unruh-DeWitt detector methods. Unlike in previous literature, we use Unruh quantization to quantize the matter field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Ashmita Das , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We analyze the two-photon emission process of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. Using second-order perturbation theory, we derive the exact final quantum state of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Arash Azizi

Modeling the qubit by a two-level semiclassical detector coupled to a massless scalar field, we investigate how the Unruh effect affects the nonlocality and entanglement of two-qubit and three-qubit states when one of the entangled qubits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

A simple but powerful particle detector model consists of a two-level system coupled to a field, where the detected particles are the field excitations. This is known as the Unruh-DeWitt detector. Research using this model has often focused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Carolyn E. Wood , Magdalena Zych

The Unruh effect, thereby an ideally accelerated quantum detector is predicted to absorb thermalized virtual photons and re-emit real photons, is significantly extended for laboratory accessible configurations. Using modern influence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 Charles H. -T. Wang , Gianluca Gregori , Robert Bingham , Yakubu Adamu , Bethel N. Eneh , Maé C. Rodriguez , Sarah-Jane Twigg

Recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to harvest quantum resources other than entanglement from a coherent scalar field. Employing time-dependent perturbation theory, we present a complete analysis of the conditions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos

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

We study one-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a spatially-varying Dirac velocity $v(x)$, that can form an approximate lab-based Rindler Hamiltonian describing an observer accelerating in Minkowski spacetime. A sudden switch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Khristian B. Tallent , Daniel E. Sheehy

We show that entanglement can be used to detect spacetime curvature. Quantum fields in the Minkowski vacuum are entangled with respect to local field modes. This entanglement can be swapped to spatially separated quantum systems using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-22 Greg Ver Steeg , Nicolas C. Menicucci

An effective force induced by spatially depending decoherence is predicted. The phenomenon is illustrated by a simple model of a 1/2-spin particle subjected to distributed unselective measurement of noncommuting spin components.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. V. Il'ichov

When analyzing the perception of Hawking radiation by different observers, the Hawking effect becomes mixed with the Unruh effect. The separation of both effects is not always clear in the literature. Here we propose an inconsistency-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Luis C. Barbado , Carlos Barceló , Luis J. Garay , Gil Jannes

We analyze the statistical mechanical properties of n-detectors in arbitrary states of motion interacting with each other via a quantum field. We use the open system concept and the influence functional method to calculate the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alpan Raval , B. L. Hu , James Anglin

We study the impact of the zero-mode of a quantum field on the evolution of a particle detector. For a massless scalar field in a periodic cavity, we show that the impact of the zero mode on the Unruh-DeWitt detector and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Jorma Louko

In the context of quantum gravity phenomenology, we study the Unruh effect in the presence of superluminal dispersion relations. In particular, we estimate the response function and the probability rate for an accelerated detector coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimiliano Rinaldi

The equivalence principle is a perennial subject of controversy, especially in connection with radiation by a uniformly accelerated classical charge, or a freely falling charge observed by a supported detector. Recently, related issues have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 S. A. Fulling , J. H. Wilson

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

Detailed behaviors of the modes of quantized scalar fields in the Unruh state for various eternal black holes in two dimensions are investigated. It is shown that the late-time behaviors of some of the modes of the quantum fields and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Paul R. Anderson , Shohreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi , Zachary P. Scofield

We review Unruh-DeWitt detectors and other models of detector-field interaction in a relativistic quantum field theory setting as a tool for extracting detector-detector, field-field and detector-field correlation functions of interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Jorma Louko

We consider the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector near an extremal charged black hole, modeling the near-horizon region of this extremal spacetime by the Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. The advantage of employing the Bertotti-Robinson limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Aindriú Conroy , Peter Taylor

We study the momentum space entanglement between different energy modes of interacting scalar fields propagating in general (D + 1)-dimensional flat space-time. As opposed to some of the recent works [1], we use Lorentz invariant normalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-29 S. Santhosh Kumar , S. Shankaranarayanan