Causal particle detectors and topology

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.01.013MaRDI QIDQ2503380zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Langlois

Publication date 14 September 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510049

zbMATH Keywords

particle detectorsregularization of Wightmann function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We investigate particle detector responses in some topologically non-trivial spacetimes. We extend a recently proposed regularization of the massless scalar field Wightman function in 4-dimensional Minkowski space to arbitrary dimension, to the massive scalar field, to quotients of Minkowski space under discrete isometry groups and to the massless Dirac field. We investigate in detail the transition rate of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors on the quotient spaces under groups generated by $(t,x,y,z)mapsto(t,x,y,z+2a)$, $(t,x,y,z)mapsto(t,-x,y,z)$, $(t,x,y,z)mapsto(t,-x,-y,z)$, $(t,x,y,z)mapsto(t,-x,-y,z+a)$ and some higher dimensional generalizations. For motions in at constant $y$ and $z$ on the latter three spaces the response is time dependent. We also discuss the response of static detectors on the RP^3 geon and inertial detectors on RP^3 de Sitter space via their associated global embedding Minkowski spaces (GEMS). The response on RP^3 de Sitter space, found both directly and in its GEMS, provides support for the validity of applying the GEMS procedure to detector responses and to quotient spaces such as RP^3 de Sitter space and the RP^3 geon where the embedding spaces are Minkowski spaces with suitable identifications.

Review text

In the paper under review particle detector models in topologically non-trivial fields are investigated. At first, the recently proposed regularization procedure for the positive frequency Wightman function is extended to Minkowski space of arbitrary dimension and to further important situations. Secondly, detector responces on certain topologically non-trivial spacetimes are presented, with the aim of claryfying the effect of the non-trivial topology on the Unruh and Hawking effects.

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