Quantum field and uniformly accelerated oscillator

Hyeong-Chan Kim
Phys. Rev. D 59, 064024 – Published 17 February 1999
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Abstract

We present an exact treatment of the influences on a quantum scalar field in its Minkowski vacuum state induced by coupling of the field to a uniformly accelerated harmonic oscillator. We show that there is no radiation from the oscillator from the point of view of a uniformly accelerating observer. On the other hand, there is radiation from the point of view of an inertial observer if there are asymptotically switching on and off processes. It is shown that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen- (EPR-)like correlations of Rindler particles in Minkowski vacuum states are modified by a phase factor in front of the momentum-symmetric Rindler operators. The exact quantization of a time-dependent oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field is given.

  • Received 19 August 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.064024

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hyeong-Chan Kim*

  • Department of Physics and Institute of Basic Research, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suwon, 440-746, Korea

  • *Present address: Dept. of Science Education, Ewha women’s Univ., Seoul, Korea (120-750). Email address: leo@newton.skku.ac.kr

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Vol. 59, Iss. 6 — 15 March 1999

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