Then again, how often does the Unruh–DeWitt detector click if we switch it carefully?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/7/003MaRDI QIDQ3435173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alejandro Satz

Publication date 25 April 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611067

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: The transition probability in first-order perturbation theory for an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field in Minkowski space is calculated. It has been shown recently that the conventional $iepsilon$ regularisation prescription for the correlation function leads to non-Lorentz invariant results for the transition rate, and a different regularisation, involving spatial smearing of the field, has been advocated to replace it. We show that the non-Lorentz invariance arises solely from the assumption of sudden switch-on and switch-off of the detector, and that when the model includes a smooth switching function the results from the conventional regularisation are both finite and Lorentz invariant. The sharp switching limit of the model is also discussed, as well as the falloff properties of the spectrum for large frequencies.

Recommendations

• How often does the Unruh–DeWitt detector click? Regularization by a spatial profile
• Transition rate of the Unruh–DeWitt detector in curved spacetime
• How often does the Unruh-DeWwitt detector click beyond four dimensions?
• Waiting for Unruh
• New insights into uniformly accelerated detector in a quantum field

Cited in

(23)

• Scalar and fermionic Unruh Otto engines
• A path integral formulation for particle detectors: the Unruh-DeWitt model as a line defect
• Quantum detection of conicity
• A quantum peek inside the black hole event horizon
• The cost of building a wall for a fermion
• How often does the Unruh-DeWwitt detector click beyond four dimensions?
• Onset and decay of the 1 + 1 Hawking-Unruh effect: what the derivative-coupling detector saw
• Response of a uniformly accelerated detector to massless Rarita-Schwinger fields in vacuum
• The Unruh effect and its applications
• How often does the Unruh–DeWitt detector click? Regularization by a spatial profile
• Considerations on the Unruh effect: causality and regularization
• Finite-time response of inertial and uniformly accelerated Unruh - DeWitt detectors
• Radiation from a receding mirror: Unruh-DeWitt detector distinguishes a Dirac fermion from a scalar boson
• Finite time measurements by Unruh-DeWitt detector and Landauer's principle
• Quantum signaling in relativistic motion and across acceleration horizons
• Transition rate of the Unruh–DeWitt detector in curved spacetime
• Decoding quantum field theory with machine learning
• Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors in bouncing cosmologies
• Particle detectors under chronological hazard
• Quantum detection of boundary conditions
• Enhancement of harvesting vacuum entanglement in cosmic string spacetime
• Probing non-equilibrium steady states of the Klein-Gordon field with Unruh-DeWitt detectors
• On some information-geometric aspects of Hawking radiation as tunneling

This page was built for publication: Then again, how often does the Unruh–DeWitt detector click if we switch it carefully?

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3435173)