New insights into uniformly accelerated detector in a quantum field

DOI10.1007/S10701-007-9120-1MaRDI QIDQ2642659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 17 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0610024

zbMATH Keywords

radiation theorytime-dependent perturbation theoryUnruh effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We obtained an exact solution for a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in (3+1) dimensions which enables us to study the entire evolution of the total system, from the initial transient to late-time steady state. We find that the Unruh effect as derived from time-dependent perturbation theory is valid only in the transient stage and is totally invalid for cases with proper acceleration smaller than the damping constant. We also found that, unlike in (1+1)D results, the (3+1)D uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector in a steady state does emit a positive radiated power of quantum nature at late-times, but it is not connected to the thermal radiance experienced by the detector in the Unruh effect proper.

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