Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03120v3
• Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 18:34:42 GMT
• Title: Second-quantized Unruh-DeWitt detectors and their quantum reference frame transformations
• Authors: Flaminia Giacomini, Achim Kempf
• Abstract summary: We generalize the Unruh-DeWitt detector model to second quantization. We show how to transform into the rest frame of a decaying particle in a linear superposition of relativistically differing velocities.
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• Abstract: We generalize the Unruh-DeWitt detector model to second quantization. We illustrate this model by applying it to an excited particle in a superposition of relativistic velocities. We calculate, to first order, how its decay depends on whether its superposition of velocities is coherent or incoherent. Further, we generalize the framework of quantum reference frames to allow transformations to the rest frames of second-quantized Unruh DeWitt detectors. As an application, we show how to transform into the rest frame of a decaying particle that, in the laboratory frame, is in a linear superposition of relativistically differing velocities.

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