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Partner formula for an arbitrary moving mirror in $1+1$ dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In the information loss problem in black hole evaporation, investigation of the purification partner of a Hawking particle is crucial. It is a well-known fact that 3+1 dimensional spherically symmetric gravitational collapse can be approximately described by 1+1 dimensional moving mirror models. Since a detected particle in field theory is defined by what a particle detector observes, the diversity of detector designs yields a variety of particles and their partners. We provide a formula of generalized partners of detected particles emitted out of mirrors in arbitrary motion in a free massless scalar field theory. Using the formula, we directly demonstrate information storage about pre-thermal information in a pure state of a Hawking particle and its partner. The partner form drastically changes depending on the detailed designs of particle detectors for the Hawking radiation. In a case of the Hawking particle and its partner sensitive to information about pre-thermal era, spatial configurations of the partner has long tails in a stage where only zero-point fluctuation is emitted out of the mirror.

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@article{arxiv.1906.05009,
  title  = {Partner formula for an arbitrary moving mirror in $1+1$ dimensions},
  author = {Takeshi Tomitsuka and Koji Yamaguchi and Masahiro Hotta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05009},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 18 figures

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