On quantum radiation in curved spacetime

DOI10.1007/S10714-005-0072-5MaRDI QIDQ2487319zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors She-Sheng Xue

Publication date 19 August 2005

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204060

zbMATH Keywords

Curved spacetimeQuantum field theoryVacuum polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: In the context of quantum field theories in curved spacetime, we compute the effective action of the transition amplitude from vacuum to vacuum in the presence of an external gravitational field. The imaginary part of resulted effective action determines the probability of vacuum decay via quantum tunneling process, giving the rate and spectrum of particle creations. We show that gravitational field polarizes vacuum and discretizes its spectrum for such a polarization gains gravitational energy. On the basis of gravitational vacuum polarization, we discuss the quantum origin of vacuum decay in curved spacetime as pair-creations of particles and anti-particles. The thermal spectrum of particle creations is attributed to (i) the CPT invariance of pair-creations(annihilations) from(into) vacuum and (ii) vacuum acts as a reserve with the temperature determined by gravitational energy-gain.

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