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Detector's response to coherent Rindler and Minkowski photons

Quantum Physics 2026-01-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

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 (1+1)(1+1) and (3+1)(3+1)-spacetime dimensions. Interestingly, the transition probabilities of the ``classical'' detector in the classical limit of the photon state in (1+1)(1+1)-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 (3+1)(3+1)-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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