Absence of embedded mass shells: Cerenkov radiation and quantum friction

DOI10.1007/S00023-010-0066-ZMaRDI QIDQ630036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. De Roeck, Jürg Fröhlich, A. Pizzo

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0688

zbMATH Keywords

absence of mass shellsCerenkov radiationnonrelativistic particle coupled to a Bose fieldquantum friction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: We show that, in a model where a non-relativistic particle is coupled to a quantized relativistic scalar Bose field, the embedded mass shell of the particle dissolves in the continuum when the interaction is turned on, provided the coupling constant is sufficiently small. More precisely, under the assumption that the fiber eigenvectors corresponding to the putative mass shell are differentiable as functions of the total momentum of the system, we show that a mass shell could exist only at a strictly positive distance from the unperturbed embedded mass shell near the boundary of the energy-momentum spectrum.

Review text

This paper describes a model consisting of a nonrelativistic particle of mass \(m\) coupled to a quantized relativistic massless Bose field. The interaction is linear in the creation and annihilation operators. Since the system is invariant under space translations, its total momentum is conserved. When the particle momentum exceeds \(mc\), one expects that the particle will emit Cerenkov radiation. Moreover, in this spectral region one expects that the mass shell of the nonrelativistic particle disappears as soon as the interaction is switched on, i.e. the particle becomes unstable. Formulated differently, the mass shell dissolves in the continuum. More precisely, under the assumption that the fiber eigenvectors corresponding to the putative mass shell are differentiable functions of the total momentum, it can be shown that a mass shell can exist only at some positive distance away from from the unperturbed mass shell near the boundary of the energy-momentum spectrum.

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