Unruh effect for detectors in superposition of accelerations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12603v4
• Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:37:05 GMT
• Title: Unruh effect for detectors in superposition of accelerations
• Authors: Luis C. Barbado, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Luca Apadula and \v{C}aslav Brukner
• Abstract summary: The Unruhh effect is the phenomenon that accelerated observers detect particles even when inertial observers experience the vacuum state. Here we consider the Unruhh effect for a detector that excitation a quantum supertime of different trajectories in Minkowski space.
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• Abstract: The Unruh effect is the phenomenon that accelerated observers detect particles even when inertial observers experience the vacuum state. In particular, uniformly accelerated observers are predicted to measure thermal radiation that is proportional to the acceleration. Here we consider the Unruh effect for a detector that follows a quantum superposition of different accelerated trajectories in Minkowski spacetime. More precisely, we analyse the excitations of a pointlike multilevel particle detector coupled to a massless real scalar field and moving in the superposition of accelerated trajectories. We find that the state of the detector excitations is, in general, not a mere (convex) mixture of the thermal spectrum characteristics of the Unruh effect for each trajectory with well-defined acceleration separately. Rather, for certain trajectories and excitation levels, and upon the measurement of the trajectory state, the state of the detector excitations features in addition off-diagonal terms. The off-diagonal terms of these "superpositions of thermal states" are related to the distinguishability of the different possible states in which the field is left after its interaction with detector's internal degrees of the freedom.

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