Transition rate of the Unruh–DeWitt detector in curved spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/5/055012zbMATH Open1136.83019arXiv0710.5671OpenAlexW3099157450MaRDI QIDQ5454619FDOQ5454619

Authors: Jorma Louko, Alejandro Satz 

Publication date: 31 March 2008

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

Abstract: We examine the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in an arbitrary Hadamard state in four-dimensional curved spacetime. Using smooth switching functions to turn on and off the interaction, we obtain a regulator-free integral formula for the total excitation probability, and we show that an instantaneous transition rate can be recovered in a suitable limit. Previous results in Minkowski space are recovered as a special case. As applications, we consider an inertial detector in the Rindler vacuum and a detector at rest in a static Newtonian gravitational field. Gravitational corrections to decay rates in atomic physics laboratory experiments on the surface of the Earth are estimated to be suppressed by 42 orders of magnitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5671

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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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