Quantum charged fields in (1+1) Rindler space

DOI10.1006/APHY.2000.6071zbMATH Open0983.81066arXivgr-qc/9912016OpenAlexW2041742683MaRDI QIDQ1590164FDOQ1590164

Authors: Claus Gabriel, Philippe Spindel 

Publication date: 23 April 2002

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

Abstract: We study, using Rindler coordinates, the quantization of a charged scalar field interacting with a constant, external, electric field. First we establish the expression of the Schwinger vacuum decay rate, using the operator formalism. Then we rederive it in the framework of the Feynman path integral method. Our analysis reinforces the conjecture which identifies the zero winding sector of the Minkowski propagator with the Rindler propagator. Moreover we compute the expression of the Unruh's modes that allow to make connection between Minkowskian and Rindlerian quantization scheme by purely algebraic relations. We use these modes to study the physics of a charged two level detector moving in an electric field whose transitions are due to the exchange of charged quanta. In the limit where the Schwinger pair production mechanism of the exchanged quanta becomes negligible we recover the Boltzman equilibrium ratio for the population of the levels of the detector. Finally we explicitly show how the detector can be taken as the large mass and charge limit of an interacting fields system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912016

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zbMATH Keywords

Rindler spaceQuantum charged fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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