Considerations on the Unruh effect: causality and regularization

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/19/011zbMATH Open1060.83025arXivgr-qc/0306022OpenAlexW2095737186MaRDI QIDQ4660944FDOQ4660944

Authors: Sebastian Schlicht 

Publication date: 4 April 2005

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

Abstract: This article is motivated by the observation, that calculations of the Unruh effect based on idealized particle detectors are usually made in a way that involves integrations along the {em entire} detector trajectory up to the infinitely remote {em future}. We derive an expression which allows time-dependence of the detector response in the case of a non-stationary trajectory and conforms more explicitely to the principle of causality, namely that the response at a given instant of time depends only on the detectors {em past} movements. On trying to reproduce the thermal Unruh spectrum we are led to an unphysical result, which we trace down to the use of the standard regularization $tot-ieps$ of the correlation function. By consistently employing a rigid detector of finite extension, we are led to a different regularization which works fine with our causal response function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306022

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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