Photon counting by inertial and accelerated detectors
Quantum Physics
2015-06-15 v1
Abstract
Bases of exactly localized Minkowski and Rindler states on spacelike hypersurfaces are used to describe inertial and accelerated photon counting devices. It is found that the spacetime coordinates of photons absorbed by a pair of counteraccelerating detectors in causally disconnected Rindler wedges are correlated. If a photon is absorbed by a single accelerated detector the Minkowski vacuum collapses to a state containing at least one photon and that photon can be absorbed by an inertial detector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.5138,
title = {Photon counting by inertial and accelerated detectors},
author = {Margaret Hawton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5138},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
to be published in Phys. Rev. A