Thermal effect in a causal diamond: open quantum systems approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08086v1
• Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 06:42:42 GMT
• Title: Thermal effect in a causal diamond: open quantum systems approach
• Authors: Abhijit Chakraborty, Horacio Camblong, Carlos Ordonez
• Abstract summary: A static observer with a finite lifetime has causal access to only a limited region of spacetime known as the causal diamond. The presence of an apparent horizon in the causal diamond, due to the observer's finite lifetime, is the origin of an Unruh-like thermal effect. We provide an open quantum systems approach that yields a complete thermal characterization via the observer's steady-state density matrix.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A static observer with a finite lifetime has causal access to only a limited region of spacetime known as the causal diamond. The presence of an apparent horizon in the causal diamond, due to the observer's finite lifetime, is the origin of an Unruh-like thermal effect. Thus, even though the observer is static and the background is flat, the finite-lifetime observer experiences a thermal bath in the Minkowski vacuum. In this article, we provide an open quantum systems approach that yields a complete thermal characterization via the observer's steady-state density matrix, which is shown to be thermal with a temperature inversely proportional to its lifetime. This associated diamond temperature agrees with the established result derived from other methods. Moreover, our approach is particularly useful for designing entanglement harvesting protocols in the causal diamond. In addition, we introduce an insightful procedure that defines diamond coordinates using conformal transformations, and which leads to a more direct derivation of the thermal properties.

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