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We study the influence of the environment-induced interatomic interaction, which is usually neglected, on the entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated atoms coupled with fluctuating massless scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Ying Chen , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated atoms with the same acceleration perpendicular to their separation. The two-atom system is treated as an open system coupled with fluctuating electromagnetic fields in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Yiquan Yang , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

We study, in the framework of open systems, the entanglement generation of two independent uniformly accelerated atoms in interaction with the vacuum fluctuations of massless scalar fields subjected to a reflecting plane boundary. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We study, in the paradigm of open quantum systems, the entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated atoms with the same acceleration perpendicular to the separation. The two-atom system is treated as an open system coupled with a bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Considering environment-induced interatomic interaction, we study the entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated atoms that interact with fluctuating massless scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum in the presence of a reflecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Chenhao Ma , Zixu Zhao

The Unruh effect predicts that a uniformly accelerated observer perceives the vacuum seen by an inertial observer as a thermal bath at a temperature proportional to its proper acceleration. This phenomenon is often regarded as a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Quantum entanglement of the Minkowski vacuum state between left and right Rindler wedges generates thermal behavior in the right Rindler wedge, which is known as the Unruh effect. In this letter, we show that there is another consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-09 Satoshi Iso , Rumi Tatsukawa , Kazushige Ueda , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

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

It has been proved in the context of quantum fields in Minkowski spacetime that the vacuum state is a thermal state according to uniformly accelerated observers -- a seminal result known as the Unruh effect. Recent claims, however, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 Cesar A. Uliana Lima , Frederico Brito , José A. Hoyos , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement dynamics for a quantum system composed of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-Dewitt detectors interacting with a bath of massive scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-20 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

We show how the use of entanglement can enhance the precision of the detection of the Unruh effect with an accelerated probe. We use the Unruh-DeWitt model of a two-level atom interacting relativistically with a quantum field and treat the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing , Andrzej Dragan

Minkowski vacuum is empty from the perspective of Unruh-Minkowski photons, however, in the Rindler picture, it is filled with entangled pairs of Rindler photons. A ground-state atom uniformly accelerated through Minkowski vacuum can become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Marlan O. Scully , William Unruh

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

We investigate, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement dynamics of two circularly accelerated two-level atoms with the same centripetal acceleration interacting with a bath of fluctuating electromagnetic fields in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jiaozhen She , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

We study the "anti-Unruh effect" for an entangled quantum state in reference to the counterintuitive cooling previously pointed out for an accelerated detector coupled to the vacuum. We show that quantum entanglement for an initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Taotao Li , Baocheng Zhang , Li You

We study radiative processes of uniformly accelerated entangled atoms, interacting with an electromagnetic field prepared in the Minkowski vacuum state. We discuss the structure of the rate of variation of the atomic energy for two atoms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

A uniformly accelerated atom in an inertial vacuum generally thermalizes and reaches a Gibbs state. This phenomenon is commonly known as the Unruh effect. Here, we show that the situation is entirely different for the many-atoms problem. In…

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

We study the radiative process of two entangled two-level atoms uniformly accelerated in a thermal bath, coupled to a massless scalar field. First, using the positive frequency Wightman function from the Minkowski modes with a Rindler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

It is shown that the Unruh effect, i.e. the increase in temperature indicated by a uniformly accelerated thermometer in an inertial vacuum state of a quantum field, cannot be interpreted as the result of an exchange of heat with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Detlev Buchholz , Rainer Verch

We consider a two-level atom that follows a wordline of constant velocity, while interacting with a massless scalar field in a thermal state through: (i) an Unruh-DeWitt coupling, and (ii) a coupling that involves the time derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Nikolaos Papadatos , Dimitris Moustos
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