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Onset and decay of the 1 + 1 Hawking–Unruh effect: what the derivative-coupling detector saw (2014)
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Juárez-Aubry, B. A., & Louko, J. (2014). Onset and decay of the 1 + 1 Hawking–Unruh effect: what the derivative-coupling detector saw. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(24), Article 245007. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/24/245007

We study an Unruh–DeWitt particle detector that is coupled to the proper time derivative of a real scalar field in 1 + 1 spacetime dimensions. Working within first-order perturbation theory, we cast the transition probability into a regulator- free f... Read More about Onset and decay of the 1 + 1 Hawking–Unruh effect: what the derivative-coupling detector saw.

Unruh-DeWitt detector response across a Rindler firewall is finite (2014)
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Louko, J. (2014). Unruh-DeWitt detector response across a Rindler firewall is finite. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(9), https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09%282014%29142

We investigate a two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field or its proper time derivative in (1 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in a quantum state whose correlation structure across the Rindler horizon mimics the station... Read More about Unruh-DeWitt detector response across a Rindler firewall is finite.

Unruh-DeWitt detector response along static and circular-geodesic trajectories for Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes (2014)
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Ng, K. K., Hodgkinson, L., Louko, J., Mann, R. B., & Martín-Martínez, E. (2014). Unruh-DeWitt detector response along static and circular-geodesic trajectories for Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 90(6), Article 064003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.064003

© 2014 American Physical Society. We present novel methods to numerically address the problem of characterizing the response of particle detectors in curved spacetimes. These methods allow for the integration of the Wightman function, at least in pri... Read More about Unruh-DeWitt detector response along static and circular-geodesic trajectories for Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes.

Particle detectors and the zero mode of a quantum field (2014)
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Martín-Martínez, E., & Louko, J. (2014). Particle detectors and the zero mode of a quantum field. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 90(2), Article 024015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024015

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 derivative-coupling gener... Read More about Particle detectors and the zero mode of a quantum field.