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The Berry phase from the entanglement of future and past light cones: detecting the timelike Unruh effect

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arxiv 2112.00898 v2 pith:KZ44QPSE submitted 2021-12-02 gr-qc quant-ph

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The Unruh effect can not only arise out of the entanglement between modes of left and right Rindler wedges, but also between modes of future and past light cones. We explore the geometric phase resulting from this timelike entanglement between the future and past, showing that it can be captured in a simple $\Lambda$-system. This provides an alternative paradigm to the Unruh-deWitt detector. The Unruh effect has not been experimentally verified because the accelerations needed to excite a response from Unruh-deWitt detectors are prohibitively large. We demonstrate that a stationary but time-dependent $\Lambda$-system detects the timelike Unruh effect with current technology.

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    A frequency-chirped fluxonium Λ-system is predicted to accumulate a geometric phase from the timelike Unruh effect, shifting its ground-state population by ~10% within 530 ns.

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