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The Unruh effect and its applications

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It has been thirty 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. Here, we review the Unruh effect with particular emphasis to its applications. We also comment on a number of recent developments and discuss some controversies. Effort is also made to clarify what seems to be common misconceptions.

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Thermality Breakdown in Null-Shifted Rindler Wedges

hep-th · 2026-04-15 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Massive fields in null-shifted Rindler wedges produce non-thermal spectra for accelerated observers, as mass eliminates the exponential Bogoliubov mixing that creates thermality.

Probing Unruh Effect from Enhanced Decoherence

gr-qc · 2026-03-27 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Decoherence rate of an Unruh-DeWitt detector scales as a^{2Δ-1} in the long-time limit, increasing with the scaling dimension Δ of the coupled field and offering a more sensitive probe of the Unruh effect.

Weyl anomaly induced transport in hydrodynamics

hep-th · 2026-04-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The Weyl anomaly induces a new non-dissipative current in accelerated fluids that fixes the electromagnetic-acceleration coupling at second order in hydrodynamics.

Modular theory and affine representations on the Rindler horizon

hep-th · 2026-05-31 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Affine group symmetries on the light ray, with dilations implementing modular flow, provide the minimal structure for thermality on the Rindler horizon via the Mellin transform bridge between Minkowski and Rindler modes.

Decay of uniformly rotating particles

gr-qc · 2025-10-21 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

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Poincar\'e invariance and the Unruh effect

physics.gen-ph · 2024-05-09 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Acceleration has no effect on a causality-enforcing trivial vacuum, so the Unruh effect is absent and standard calculations omit a cancelling contribution from Lorentz transformations acting on the detector.

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