Strong Noninertial Radiative Shifts in Atomic Spectra at Low Accelerations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13481v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:01:19 GMT
• Title: Strong Noninertial Radiative Shifts in Atomic Spectra at Low Accelerations
• Authors: Navdeep Arya, D. Jaffino Stargen, Kinjalk Lochan, Sandeep K. Goyal,
• Abstract summary: We show that a purely-noninertial radiative shift as large as 50 times the inertial energy shift can be obtained at small, experimentally achievable accelerations. We argue that the radiative energy-level shift is a promising observable for detecting Unruh thermality with current technology.
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• Abstract: Despite numerous proposals investigating various properties of accelerated detectors in different settings, detecting the Unruh effect remains challenging due to the typically weak signal at achievable accelerations. For an atom with frequency gap $\omega_0$, accelerated in free space, significant acceleration-induced modification of properties like transition rates and radiative energy shifts requires accelerations of the order of $\omega_0 c$. In this paper, we make the case for a suitably modified density of field states to be complemented by a judicious selection of the system property to be monitored. We study the radiative energy-level shift in inertial and uniformly accelerated atoms coupled to a massless quantum scalar field inside a cylindrical cavity. Uniformly accelerated atoms experience thermal correlations in the inertial vacuum, and the radiative shifts are expected to respond accordingly. We show that the noninertial contribution to the energy shift can be isolated and significantly enhanced relative to the inertial contribution by suitably modifying the density of field modes inside a cylindrical cavity. Moreover, we demonstrate that monitoring the radiative energy shift, as compared to transition rates, allows us to reap a stronger purely-noninertial signal. We find that a purely-noninertial radiative shift as large as 50 times the inertial energy shift can be obtained at small, experimentally achievable accelerations ($ a \sim 10^{-9} \omega_{0} c$) if the cavity's radius $R$ is specified with a relative precision of $\delta R/R_{0} \sim 10^{-7}$. Given that radiative shifts for inertial atoms have already been measured with high accuracy, we argue that the radiative energy-level shift is a promising observable for detecting Unruh thermality with current technology.

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