Uniformly accelerated Brownian oscillator in (2+1)D: temperature-dependent dissipation and frequency shift

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137115MaRDI QIDQ2140703zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimitris Moustos

Publication date 23 May 2022

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08287

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Unruh effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20)

Abstract: We consider an Unruh-DeWitt detector modeled as a harmonic oscillator that is coupled to a massless quantum scalar field in the (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system and employ a quantum Langevin equation to describe its time evolution, with the field, which is characterized by a frequency-independent spectral density, acting as a stochastic force. We investigate a point-like detector moving with constant acceleration through the Minkowski vacuum and an inertial one immersed in a thermal reservoir at the Unruh temperature, exploring the implications of the well-known non-equivalence between the two cases on their dynamics. We find that both the accelerated detector's dissipation rate and the shift of its frequency caused by the coupling to the field bath depend on the acceleration temperature. Interestingly enough this is not only in contrast to the case of inertial motion in a heat bath but also to any analogous quantum Brownian motion model in open systems, where dissipation and frequency shifts are not known to exhibit temperature dependencies. Nonetheless, we show that the fluctuating-dissipation theorem still holds for the detector-field system and in the weak-coupling limit an accelerated detector is driven at late times to a thermal equilibrium state at the Unruh temperature.

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