Particle creation in the effective action method

DOI10.1006/APHY.1998.5860MaRDI QIDQ1279895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. G. Mirzabekian, G. A. Vilkovisky

Publication date 9 January 2000

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9803006

zbMATH Keywords

creation of particles from the vacuumenergy of massless particlesenergy-momentum tensorexpectation-value spacetimenonstationary external fieldsquantum noiseradiation effectradiation of the non-relativistic shellradiation of the ultrarelativistic shellradiation of wavesspherically symmetric electromagnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The effect of particle creation by nonstationary external fields is considered as a radiation effect in the expectation-value spacetime. The energy of created massless particles is calculated as the vacuum contribution in the energy-momentum tensor of the expectation value of the metric. The calculation is carried out for an arbitrary quantum field coupled to all external fields entering the general second-order equation. The result is obtained as a functional of the external fields. The paper gives a systematic derivation of this result on the basis of the nonlocal effective action. Although the derivation is quite involved and touches on many aspects of the theory, the result itself is remarkably simple. It brings the quantum problem of particle creation to the level of complexity of the classical radiation problem. For external fields like the electromagnetic or gravitational field there appears a quantity, the radiation moment, that governs both the classical radiation of waves and the quantum particle production. The vacuum radiation of an electrically charged source is considered as an example. The research is aimed at the problem of backreaction of the vacuum radiation.

Review text

The problem of creation of particles from the vacuum by nonstationary external fields is discussed as a radiation effect in the expectation-value spacetime. The energy of massless particles created in external fields of arbitrary configuration is calculated as the vacuum contribution in the energy-momentum tensor of the expectation value of the metric. The result is obtained as a functional of these fields. The problems discussed include effective action, quantum noise, the behavior of all kernels, the early-time behavior, the late-time behavior, creation of particles and radiation of waves, particles produced by a spherically symmetric electromagnetic field, radiation of the non-relativistic shell, and radiation of the ultrarelativistic shell.

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