Acceleration-induced radiation from a qudit particle detector model

We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor that depends on the detector's initial state. In particular, certain initial states of integer-spin detectors do not produce radiation. Although the appearance of Larmor's formula may suggest a classical phenomenon, we argue that the resulting radiation is fundamentally distinct from that of structureless classical sources, as it evolves into a multimode coherent state correlated with the detector's internal degree of freedom. Thus, gapless detectors cannot be treated as structureless sources, as previously proposed.

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Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
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2025-05-14
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.105012
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3
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Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
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Acceleration-induced radiation from a qudit particle detector model

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Acceleration-induced radiation from a qudit particle detector model

Yasusada Nambu, Kensuke Gallock‐Yoshimura, Yuki Osawa
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Abstract

We nonperturbatively examine the emission rate of acceleration-induced radiation from a uniformly accelerated gapless qudit-type Unruh-DeWitt detector. We find that the emission rate can be written as Larmor's formula multiplied by a factor that depends on the detector's initial state. In particular, certain initial states of integer-spin detectors do not produce radiation. Although the appearance of Larmor's formula may suggest a classical phenomenon, we argue that the resulting radiation is fundamentally distinct from that of structureless classical sources, as it evolves into a multimode coherent state correlated with the detector's internal degree of freedom. Thus, gapless detectors cannot be treated as structureless sources, as previously proposed.

Physical review. D/Physical review. D.Vol. 111(10)
Kyushu University (JP), Nagoya University (JP)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency
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