Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations

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作者
Giacomini, Flaminia [1 ]
Kempf, Achim [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[2] Univ Waterloo, Dept Appl Math, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[3] Univ Waterloo, Dept Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[4] Univ Waterloo, Inst Quantum Comp, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
PERSPECTIVE; SYMMETRY; TIME;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.125001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We generalize the Unruh-DeWitt detector model to second quantization. We illustrate this model by applying it to an excited particle in a superposition of relativistic velocities. We calculate, to first order, how its decay depends on whether its superposition of velocities is coherent or incoherent. Further, we generalize the framework of quantum reference frames to allow transformations to the rest frames of second-quantized Unruh DeWitt detectors. As an application, we show how to transform into the rest frame of a decaying particle that, in the laboratory frame, is in a linear superposition of relativistically differing velocities.
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