Rindler particles and classical radiation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/14/314MaRDI QIDQ3146147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. E. Diaz, J. Stephany

Publication date 11 September 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111041

zbMATH Keywords

radiationDeWitt detectorFulling-Davies-Unruh bathMinkowski scalar particleRindler particlesuniformly accelerating point source

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We describe the quantum and classical radiation by a uniformly accelerating point source in terms of the elementary processes of absorption and emission of Rindler scalar photons of the Fulling-Davies-Unruh bath observed by a co-accelerating observer.To this end we compute the emission rate by a DeWitt detector of a Minkowski scalar particle with defined transverse momentum per unit of proper time of the source and we show that it corresponds to the induced absorption or spontaneous and induced emission of Rindler photons from the thermal bath. We then take what could be called the inert limit of the DeWitt detector by considering the limit of zero gap energy. As suggested by DeWitt, we identify in this limit the detector with a classical point source and verify the consistency of our computation with the classical result. Finally, we study the behavior of the emission rate in D space-time dimensions in connection with the so called apparent statistics inversion.

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