Acceleration-induced radiation from a qudit particle detector model
Abstract
We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor that depends on the detector's initial state. In particular, certain initial states of integer-spin detectors do not produce radiation. Although the appearance of Larmor's formula may suggest a classical phenomenon, we argue that the resulting radiation is fundamentally distinct from that of structureless classical sources, as it evolves into a multimode coherent state correlated with the detector's internal degree of freedom. Thus, gapless detectors cannot be treated as structureless sources, as previously proposed.
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@article{arxiv.2502.06945,
title = {Acceleration-induced radiation from a qudit particle detector model},
author = {Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura and Yuki Osawa and Yasusada Nambu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06945},
year = {2025}
}
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(v1)10 pages, 1 figure; (v2) published version