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

James Q. Quach, Timothy C. Ralph, William J. Munro

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Abstract

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 $Λ$-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 $Λ$-system detects the timelike Unruh effect with current technology.

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4 pages, 4 figures
Journal reference
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 160401 (2022)
DOI
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.160401
Subjects
gr-qcGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology quant-phQuantum Physics

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    • The linked published version <https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...> corresponds to <https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00898>, "The Berry phase from the entanglement of future and past light cones: detecting the timelike Unruh effect".

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