Generalized Unruh effect and Lamb shift for atoms on arbitrary stationary trajectories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/12/010MaRDI QIDQ4864070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Audretsch, Rainer Müller, Markus Holzmann

Publication date 11 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9510025

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Unruh effectradiation reactionvacuum fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Atomic physics (81V45)

Abstract: We study the spontaneous de-excitation and excitation of accelerated atoms on arbitrary stationary trajectories (``generalized Unruh effect). We consider the effects of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction separately. We show that radiation reaction is generally not altered by stationary acceleration, whereas the contribution of vacuum fluctuations differs for all stationary accelerated trajectories from its inertial value. Spontaneous excitation from the ground state occurs for all { accelerated stationary} trajectories and is therefore the ``normal case. We furthermore show that the radiative energy shift (``Lamb shift) of a two-level atom is modified by acceleration for all stationary trajectories. Again only vacuum fluctuations give rise to the shift. Our results are illustrated for the special case of an atom in circular motion, which may be experimentally relevant.

Recommendations

• Spontaneous excitation of a circularly accelerated atom coupled to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations
• Acceleration-induced radiative excitation of ground-state atoms
• Spontaneous excitation of a circularly accelerated atom coupled with vacuum Dirac field fluctuations
• Lamb shift of Unruh detector levels
• Spontaneous excitation of an accelerated multilevel atom in dipole coupling to the derivative of a scalar field

Cited in

(20)

• Quantum Fisher information as a probe for Unruh thermality
• Energy shift of a uniformly moving two-level atom through a thermal reservoir
• Stationary worldline power distributions
• Quantum vacuum radiation and detection proposals
• The power spectrum of the circular noise
• Response of a uniformly accelerated detector to massless Rarita-Schwinger fields in vacuum
• Spontaneous excitation of a circularly accelerated atom coupled to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations
• Spontaneous excitation of a circularly accelerated atom coupled with vacuum Dirac field fluctuations
• The formalism for energy changing rate of an accelerated atom coupled with electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations
• EFFECTS OF A BOUNDARY ON SPONTANEOUS EXCITATION OF AN ACCELERATED MULTILEVEL ATOM COUPLED WITH THE DERIVATIVE OF SCALAR FIELDS
• ON THE RELATION BETWEEN UNRUH AND SOKOLOV–TERNOV EFFECTS
• Relative energy shift of a two-level atom in a cylindrical spacetime
• The effect of vacuum fluctuations on quantum metrology for a uniformly accelerated atom
• Acceleration-induced radiative excitation of ground-state atoms
• SELF-COUPLING OF EXCITED ATOMS IN CURVED SPACE–TIME
• Lamb shift of Unruh detector levels
• Understanding thermal nature of de Sitter spacetime via inter-detector interaction
• Quantum thermal field fluctuation induced corrections to the interaction between two ground-state atoms
• Interaction potential of two nonidentical ground-state atoms
• Quantum gravity corrections to the spontaneous excitation of an accelerated atom interacting with a quantum scalar field

This page was built for publication: Generalized Unruh effect and Lamb shift for atoms on arbitrary stationary trajectories

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4864070)