The Unruh Effect in General Boundary Quantum Field Theory

被引:8
作者
Colosi, Daniele [1 ]
Raetzel, Dennis [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Ciencias Matemat, Morelia 58190, Michoacan, Mexico
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
关键词
quantum field theory; Unruh effect; general boundary formulation; FORMULATION; STATES; TIME;
D O I
10.3842/SIGMA.2013.019
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
In the framework of the general boundary formulation (GBF) of scalar quantum field theory we obtain a coincidence of expectation values of local observables in the Minkowski vacuum and in a particular state in Rindler space. This coincidence could be seen as a consequence of the identification of the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal state in Rindler space usually associated with the Unruh effect. However, we underline the difficulty in making this identification in the GBF. Beside the Feynman quantization prescription for observables that we use to derive the coincidence of expectation values, we investigate an alternative quantization prescription called Berezin-Toeplitz quantization prescription, and we find that the coincidence of expectation values does not exist for the latter.
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