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Ambient temperature versus ambient acceleration in the circular motion Unruh effect (2024)
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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 with a massles... Read More about Ambient temperature versus ambient acceleration in the circular motion Unruh effect.

Vacua in locally de Sitter cosmologies, and how to distinguish them (2024)
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(1 + 1)-dimensional locally de Sitter–Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies with compact spatial sections allow cosh, sinh, and exponential evolution laws, each with a freely specifiable spatial circumference parameter, and the value of this paramet... Read More about Vacua in locally de Sitter cosmologies, and how to distinguish them.

Circular motion analogue Unruh effect in a 2 + 1 thermal bath: robbing from the rich and giving to the poor (2023)
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The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration a experiences the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state at temperature 𝘛ᵤ = 𝑎/(2π). An observer in uniform circular motion experiences a similar effective t... Read More about Circular motion analogue Unruh effect in a 2 + 1 thermal bath: robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

A little excitement across the horizon (2022)
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We analyse numerically the transitions in an Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field, in radial infall in (3 + 1)-dimensional Schwarzschild spacetime. In the Hartle-Hawking and Unruh states, the transition probability attai... Read More about A little excitement across the horizon.

The cost of building a wall for a fermion (2022)
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We analyse the energy cost of building or demolishing a wall for a massless Dirac field in (1+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and the response of an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector to the generated radiation. For any smoothly-evolving wall, both th... Read More about The cost of building a wall for a fermion.

Quantum kicks near a Cauchy horizon (2022)
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We analyze a quantum observer who falls geodesically toward the Cauchy horizon of a (1 + 1)-dimensional eternal black hole spacetime with the global structure of the non-extremal Reissner-Nordström solution. The observer interacts with a massless sca... Read More about Quantum kicks near a Cauchy horizon.

Detecting the massive bosonic zero-mode in expanding cosmological spacetimes (2021)
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We examine a quantized massive scalar field in (1+1)-dimensional spatially compact cosmological spacetimes in which the early time and late time expansion laws provide distinguished definitions of Fock "in"and "out"vacua, with the possible exception... Read More about Detecting the massive bosonic zero-mode in expanding cosmological spacetimes.

Interferometric Unruh Detectors for Bose-Einstein Condensates (2020)
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The Unruh effect predicts a thermal response for an accelerated detector moving through the vacuum. Here we propose an interferometric scheme to observe an analogue of the circular Unruh effect using a localized laser coupled to a Bose-Einstein conde... Read More about Interferometric Unruh Detectors for Bose-Einstein Condensates.

Unruh and analogue Unruh temperatures for circular motion in 3+1 and 2+1 dimensions (2020)
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The Unruh effect states that a uniformly linearly accelerated observer with proper acceleration a experiences Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state in the temperature Tlin=a/(2?), operationally measurable via the detailed balance condition between exci... Read More about Unruh and analogue Unruh temperatures for circular motion in 3+1 and 2+1 dimensions.

Unruh effect and information flow (2020)
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We study memory effects as information backflow for an accelerating two-level detector weakly interacting with a scalar field in the Minkowski vacuum. This is the framework of the well-known Unruh effect: the detector behaves as if it were in a therm... Read More about Unruh effect and information flow.

Inflation in loop quantum cosmology (2019)
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We develop a consistent analytic approach to determine the conditions under which slow-roll inflation can arise when the inflaton is the same scalar field that is responsible for the bounce in loop quantum cosmology (LQC). We find that the requiremen... Read More about Inflation in loop quantum cosmology.

P · Â vs x · Ê: Gauge invariance in quantum optics and quantum field theory (2019)
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We compare the predictions of the fundamentally motivated minimal coupling (^p⋅^A) and the ubiquitous dipole coupling (^x⋅^E) in the light-matter interaction. By studying the light-matter interaction for hydrogenlike atoms we find that the dipole app... Read More about P · Â vs x · Ê: Gauge invariance in quantum optics and quantum field theory.

Thermality from a Rindler quench (2018)
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© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodríguez-Laguna et al as an analogue spacetime test of the Unr... Read More about Thermality from a Rindler quench.

Smooth and sharp creation of a spherical shell for a (3+1)-dimensional quantum field (2018)
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We study the creation of a spherical, finite radius source for a quantized massless scalar field in 3 þ 1 dimensions. The goal is to model the breakdown of correlations that has been proposed to occur at the horizon of an evaporating black hole. We d... Read More about Smooth and sharp creation of a spherical shell for a (3+1)-dimensional quantum field.

Dynamical obstruction to perpetual motion from Lorentz-violating black holes (2018)
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Black holes in Lorentz-violating theories have been claimed to violate the second law of thermodynamics by perpetual motion energy extraction. We revisit this question for a Penrose splitting process in a spherically symmetric setting with two specie... Read More about Dynamical obstruction to perpetual motion from Lorentz-violating black holes.

Quantum fields during black hole formation: how good an approximation is the Unruh state? (2018)
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We study the quantum effects of a test Klein-Gordon field in a Vaidya space-time consisting of a collapsing null shell that forms a Schwazschild black hole, by explicitly obtaining, in a (1 + 1)-dimensional model, the Wightman function, the renormali... Read More about Quantum fields during black hole formation: how good an approximation is the Unruh state?.

Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations (2018)
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The Rindler horizon in Minkowski spacetime can be implanted with supertranslation hair by a matter shock wave without planar symmetry, and the hair is observable as a supertranslation memory on the Rindler family of uniformly linearly accelerated obs... Read More about Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations.

Low-energy Lorentz violation from high-energy modified dispersion in inertial and circular motion (2018)
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© 2018 American Physical Society. We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector in inertial and circular motion in Minkowski spacetime of arbitrary dimension, coupled to a quantized scalar field with the Lorentz-violating dispersion relation ω=|k|f(|k|/M†), w... Read More about Low-energy Lorentz violation from high-energy modified dispersion in inertial and circular motion.

Gravitational memory for uniformly accelerated observers (2017)
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Recently, Hawking, Perry and Strominger described a physical process that implants supertranslational hair on a Schwarzschild black hole by an infalling matter shock wave without spherical symmetry. Using the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs-type symmetries of th... Read More about Gravitational memory for uniformly accelerated observers.

Degenerate detectors are unable to harvest spacelike entanglement (2017)
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We show, under a very general set of assumptions, that pairs of identical particle detectors in spacelike separation, such as atomic probes, can only harvest entanglement from the vacuum state of a quantum field when they have a nonzero energy gap. F... Read More about Degenerate detectors are unable to harvest spacelike entanglement.