The Unruh effect and its applications

By L. Crispino, A. Higuchi, George Matsas. 2007

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It has been 30 years since the discovery of the Unruh effect. It has played a crucial role in our understanding that the particle content of a field theory is observer dependent. This effect is important in its own right and as a way to understand the phenomenon of particle emission from black holes and cosmological horizons. The Unruh effect is reviewed here with particular emphasis on its applications. A number of recent developments are also commented on and some controversies are discussed. Effort is also made to clarify what seem to be common misconceptions.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Citations in the corpus

• Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits (2011, background): “Minkowski quantum vacuum state will appear to the observer to be in a mixed thermal state (Crispino et al., 2008; Unruh, 1976).”
• Quantum coherence and geometric quantum discord (2017, background): “A fundamental prediction in QFT is that the particle content of a quantum field is observer dependent, such a phenomenon is named Unruh effect (Crispino et al., 2008; Unruh, 1976).”
• Comments on black holes I: the possibility of complementarity (2012, neutral): “the review [70] and references within).”
• Acceleration-assisted entanglement harvesting and rangefinding (2014, methodology): “In contrast to the usual treatment of the anti-parallel case [30, 31, 39], the wedges do not necessarily share a common apex.”
• Fundamental quantum optics experiments conceivable with satellites—reaching relativistic distances and velocities (2012, background): “This method is sensitive to accelerations 10(9) times smaller than other suggested attempts to probe this effect [109, 110].”
• Transition rate of the Unruh–DeWitt detector in curved spacetime (2007, background): “A comprehensive recent review of the Unruh effect can be found in [ 19 ].”