Temperatures of renormalizable quantum field theories in curved spacetime

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAE792MaRDI QIDQ5218331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Morgan H. Lynch, Niayesh Afshordi

Publication date 2 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06619

zbMATH Keywords

Unruh effectHawking effectHadamard formUnruh-de Witt detector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: In this paper we compute the temperature registered by an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a Hadamard renormalizable quantum field in an arbitrary state, moving along an accelerated trajectory in a curved spacetime. For a massless and conformally invariant field, the generalized expression for the temperature is given by the quadratic sum of the 4-acceleration, Raychaudhuri scalar, and renormalized field polarization. We can further find a novel constraint on the renormalized quantum field polarization in relativistic systems that are in global thermal equilibrium.

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