I study the response of a particle detector coupled to quantized massless complex scalar field in four dimensional Minkowski spacetime through nonlinear Lagrangian. I find that as in the real scalar field： the partic...I study the response of a particle detector coupled to quantized massless complex scalar field in four dimensional Minkowski spacetime through nonlinear Lagrangian. I find that as in the real scalar field： the particle detector will not respond when it is in inertial motion; If accelerated in its own frame reference, it does respond and feel the same temperature. But different from the real scalar field case, the detector＇s transition amplitude is concerned with particle-antiparticle creation, and the response of the detector is （1/α^2 ＋ ε^2）/24π^2 times of that in real scalar field, with 1/α the accelerator of the detector and e the energy gap between the detector＇s two energy level. It is due to the nonlinear property of the coupling Lagrangian. Whether the total charge of the system constructed by the particle detector and vacuum is conserved is also considered and analyzed.展开更多
Special gravity refers to interacting theories of massless gravitons in Minkowski space-time which are invariant under the abelian gauge invariance hab → hab ＋ δ（axb） only. In this article we determine the most g...Special gravity refers to interacting theories of massless gravitons in Minkowski space-time which are invariant under the abelian gauge invariance hab → hab ＋ δ（axb） only. In this article we determine the most general form of special gravity free of Ostrogradski ghosts, meaning its equation of motion is of at most second order. Together with the recent works, this result could be helpful in formulating proofs of General Relativity as the unique physical theory of self-interacting massless gravitons. We also study how to construct gauge invariant couplings to matter fields.展开更多
We study spontaneous excitation of both a static detector （modelled by a two-level atom） immersed in a thermal bath and a uniformly accelerated one in the Minkowski vacuum interacting with a real massive scalar fiel...We study spontaneous excitation of both a static detector （modelled by a two-level atom） immersed in a thermal bath and a uniformly accelerated one in the Minkowski vacuum interacting with a real massive scalar field. Our results show that the mass of the scalar field manifests itself in the spontaneous excitation rate of the static detector in a thermal bath （and in vacuum） in the form of a selection rule for transitions among states of the detector. However, this selection rule disappears for the accelerated ones, demonstrating that an accelerated detector does not necessarily behave the same as an inertial one in a thermal bath. We lind the imprint left by the mass is the appearance of a grey-body factor in the spontaneous excitation and de-excitation rates, which maintains the detailed balance condition between them and thus ensures a thermal equilibrium at the Unruh temperature the same as that of the massless case. We also analyze quantitatively the effect of the mass on the rate of change of the detector＇s energy and find that when the mass is very small, it only induces a small negative correction. However, when it is very large, it then exponentially damps the rate, thus essentially forbidding any transitions among states of the detector.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10947016
文摘I study the response of a particle detector coupled to quantized massless complex scalar field in four dimensional Minkowski spacetime through nonlinear Lagrangian. I find that as in the real scalar field： the particle detector will not respond when it is in inertial motion; If accelerated in its own frame reference, it does respond and feel the same temperature. But different from the real scalar field case, the detector＇s transition amplitude is concerned with particle-antiparticle creation, and the response of the detector is （1/α^2 ＋ ε^2）/24π^2 times of that in real scalar field, with 1/α the accelerator of the detector and e the energy gap between the detector＇s two energy level. It is due to the nonlinear property of the coupling Lagrangian. Whether the total charge of the system constructed by the particle detector and vacuum is conserved is also considered and analyzed.
文摘Special gravity refers to interacting theories of massless gravitons in Minkowski space-time which are invariant under the abelian gauge invariance hab → hab ＋ δ（axb） only. In this article we determine the most general form of special gravity free of Ostrogradski ghosts, meaning its equation of motion is of at most second order. Together with the recent works, this result could be helpful in formulating proofs of General Relativity as the unique physical theory of self-interacting massless gravitons. We also study how to construct gauge invariant couplings to matter fields.
基金Supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11075083,10935013 and 11005013the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. Z6100077+3 种基金the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No. 2010CB832803the PCSIRT under Grant No. IRT0964the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province under Grant No. 10C0377Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11JJ700
文摘We study spontaneous excitation of both a static detector （modelled by a two-level atom） immersed in a thermal bath and a uniformly accelerated one in the Minkowski vacuum interacting with a real massive scalar field. Our results show that the mass of the scalar field manifests itself in the spontaneous excitation rate of the static detector in a thermal bath （and in vacuum） in the form of a selection rule for transitions among states of the detector. However, this selection rule disappears for the accelerated ones, demonstrating that an accelerated detector does not necessarily behave the same as an inertial one in a thermal bath. We lind the imprint left by the mass is the appearance of a grey-body factor in the spontaneous excitation and de-excitation rates, which maintains the detailed balance condition between them and thus ensures a thermal equilibrium at the Unruh temperature the same as that of the massless case. We also analyze quantitatively the effect of the mass on the rate of change of the detector＇s energy and find that when the mass is very small, it only induces a small negative correction. However, when it is very large, it then exponentially damps the rate, thus essentially forbidding any transitions among states of the detector.
