Canonical quantization of photons in a Rindler wedge

DOI10.1063/1.532026zbMATH Open0878.58065arXivgr-qc/9603057OpenAlexW3099442738MaRDI QIDQ4345147FDOQ4345147

Authors: Valter Moretti 

Publication date: 17 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Photons and thermal photons are studied in the Rindler Wedge employing Feynman's gauge and canonical quantization. A Gupta-Bleuler-like formalism is explicitly implemented. Non thermal Wightman functions and related (Euclidean and Lorentzian) Green functions are explicitly calculated and their complex time analytic structure is analyzed using the Fulling-Ruijsenaars master function. The invariance of the advanced minus retarded fundamental solution is checked and a Ward identity discussed. It is suggested the KMS condition can be implemented to define thermal states also dealing with unphysical photons. Following this way, thermal Wightman functions and related (Euclidean and Lorentzian) Green functions are built up. Their analytic structure is examined employing a thermal master function as in the non thermal case and other corresponding properties are discussed. Some subtleties arising dealing with unphysical photons in presence of the Rindler conical singularity are pointed out. In particular, a family of thermal Wightman and Schwinger functions with the same physical content is proved to exist due to a remaining static gauge ambiguity. A photon version of Bisognano-Wichmann theorem is investigated in the case of photons propagating in the Rindler Wedge employing Wightman functions. Despite of the found ambiguity in defining Rindler Green functions, the coincidence of $$-Rindler Wightman functions and Minkowski Wightman functions is proved dealing with test functions related to physical photons and Lorentz photons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603057

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantizationphotonsRindler wedge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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