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The Unruh effect is the prediction that particle detectors acceleratedthrough the vacuum get excited by the apparent presence of radiation quanta --a fundamental quantum phenomenon in the presence of acceleration. Priortreatments of the Unruh effect, that presume a classically prescribedtrajectory, do not account for the quantum dynamics of the detector'scenter-of-mass. Here, we study more realistic detectors whose center of mass isa quantized degree of freedom being accelerated by an external classical field.We investigate the detector's recoil due to the emission of Unruh quanta. Viceversa, we also study the recoil's impact on the emission of Unruh quanta andthe excitation of the detector. We find that the recoil due to the emission ofUnruh quanta may be a relevant experimental signature of the Unruh effect.

Unruh Effect of Detectors with Quantized Center-of-Mass