Unruh's detector in the presence of Lorentz symmetry breaking

DOI10.1007/S10509-007-9554-0MaRDI QIDQ2454904zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Rashidi, Nima Khosravi, E. Khajeh, H. Salehi

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2767

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz violationUnruh's detector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We investigate the quantum field theory of a Lorentz non-invariant model with a massive nonlinear dispersion relation in Minkowski space. The model involves some non-causal signals in the form of wave packets propagating with super-luminal group velocities. To avoid the problems with causality we characterize the causal sector of the theory by a cutoff condition excluding all super-luminal group velocities. It is argued that in the causal theory satisfying the energy positivity condition an Unruh's detector moving with a constant velocity with respect to the preferred frame does not detect any particle. But in a causal theory violating energy positivity, detection of a field quanta occurs. We comment on the origin of this particle creation.

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