Detector's response to coherent Rindler and Minkowski photons
Abstract
We observe that the transition probability in a static two-level quantum detector interacting with a coherent Rindler photon is different from the same of the Rindler detector which is in interaction with a coherent Minkowski photon. Situation does not change in the response of quantum detector for the classical limit of the photon state. This we investigate in and -spacetime dimensions. Interestingly, the transition probabilities of the ``classical'' detector in the classical limit of the photon state in -dimensions, for these two scenarios, appear to be identical when the frequencies of photon mode and detector are taken to be same. However, our obtained detector's transition probabilities in -dimensions, which are calculated under the large acceleration condition, do not show such signature. The implications of these observations are discussed as well.
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@article{arxiv.2601.20557,
title = {Detector's response to coherent Rindler and Minkowski photons},
author = {Pradeep Kumar Kumawat and Dipankar Barman and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20557},
year = {2026}
}
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