Unruh effect of detectors with quantized center of mass
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Author(s)
Sudhir, Vivishek
Stritzelberger, Nadine
Kempf, Achim
Date Issued
May 2021
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Citation
Sudhir, Vivishek, Stritzelberger, Nadine and Kempf, Achim. 2021. "Unruh effect of detectors with quantized center of mass." Physical Review D, 103 (10).
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Final published version
Abstract
The Unruh effect is the prediction that particle detectors accelerated
through the vacuum get excited by the apparent presence of radiation quanta --
a fundamental quantum phenomenon in the presence of acceleration. Prior
treatments of the Unruh effect, that presume a classically prescribed
trajectory, do not account for the quantum dynamics of the detector's
center-of-mass. Here, we study more realistic detectors whose center of mass is
a quantized degree of freedom being accelerated by an external classical field.
We investigate the detector's recoil due to the emission of Unruh quanta. Vice
versa, we also study the recoil's impact on the emission of Unruh quanta and
the excitation of the detector. We find that the recoil due to the emission of
Unruh quanta may be a relevant experimental signature of the Unruh effect.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.103.105023
