Atom-field dynamics in curved spacetime

Some aspects of atom-field interactions in curved spacetime are reviewed.Of great interest are quantum radiative and entanglement processes arising out of Rindler and black hole spacetimes,which involve the role of Hawking-Unruh and dynamical Casimir effects.Most of the discussion surrounds the radiative part of interactions.For this,we specifically reassess the conventional understandings of atomic radiative transitions and energy level shifts in curved spacetime.We also briefly outline the status quo of entanglement dynamics study in curved spacetime,and highlight literature related to some novel insights,like entanglement harvesting.On one hand,the study of the role played by spacetime curvature in quantum radiative and informational phenomena has implications for fundamental physics,notably the gravity-quantum interface.In particular,one examines the viability of the Equivalence Principle,which is at the heart of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.On the other hand,it can be instructive for manipulating quantum information and light propagation in arbitrary geometries.Some issues related to nonthermal effects of acceleration are also discussed.

On Light-Like Extremal Surfaces in Curved Spacetimes

In this paper, we find that under a diffeomorphic of nonlinear geodesic equations are concerned with light-like extremal surfaces in curved spaeetimes. It is interesting to transformation of variables, the light-like extremal surfaces can be described by a system Particularly, we investigate the light-like extremal surfaces in Schwarzschild spacetime in detail and some new special solutions are derived systematically with aim to compare with the known results and to illustrate the method.

Gravitational Perturbation of Hydrogen Spectrum in the Space Curved by Intense Laser Pulses

The energy level shifts of hydrogen in the space curved by the intense short laser pulses are studied. It shows that for present power level of laser pulses, the magnitude of the energy level shifts in a highly excited hydrogen atom is detectable.

Entanglement dynamics in κ-deformed spacetime

We treat two identical and mutually independent two-level atoms that are coupled to a quantum field as an open quantum system.The master equation that governs their evolution is derived by tracing over the degree of freedom of the field.With this,we compare the entanglement dynamics of the two atoms moving with different trajectories inκ-deformed and Minkowski spacetimes.Notably,when the environment-induced interatomic interaction does not exist,the entanglement dynamics of two static atoms inκ-deformed spacetime are reduced to that in Minkowski spacetime in the case that the spacetime deformation parameterκis sufficiently large as theoretically predicted.However,if the atoms undergo relativistic motion,regardless of whether inertial or non-inertial,their entanglement dynamics inκ-deformed spacetime behave differently from that in Minkowski spacetime even whenκis large.We investigate various types of entanglement behavior,such as decay and generation,and discuss how different relativistic motions,such as uniform motion in a straight line and circular motion,amplify the differences in the entanglement dynamics between theκ-deformed and Minkowski spacetime cases.In addition,when the environment-induced interatomic interaction is considered,we find that it may also enhance the differences in the entanglement dynamics between these two spacetimes.Thus,in principle,one can tell whether she/he is inκ-deformed or Minkowski spacetime by checking the entanglement behavior between two atoms in certain circumstances.

Ward identities under the frame transformations in curved space-time

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity are considered to be competitors to Einstein's theory of general relativity for the description of classical gravity,as they are used to build feasible models for cosmic inflation.These theories can be formulated both in the Jordan and Einstein frame,which are related by a Weyl transformation with a field transformation,known together as a frame transformation.These theories formulated in the above two frames are often considered to be equivalent from the point of view of classical theory.However,this is no longer true from the quantum field theoretical perspective.In the present article,we show that the Ward identities derived in the above two frames are not connected through the frame transformation.This shows that the quantum field theories formulated in these two frames are not equivalent to each other.Moreover,this inequivalence is also shown by comparing the effective actions derived in these two frames.

Phase Transitions in the Early Universe with Negatively Induced Supergravity Cosmological Constant

We consider that the observable cosmological constant is the sum of the vacuum （Avac） and the induced term （Aind - 3m^2/4） with m being the ultra-llght masses （≈ Hubble parameter） implemented in the theory from supergravities arguments and non-minimal coupling. In the absence of a scalar buildup of matter fields, we study its effects on spontaneous symmetry breaking with a Higgs potential and show how the presence of the ultra-light masses yields some important consequences for the early universe and new constraints on the Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons masses.

Casimir Energy in Hartle-Hawking State

We calculate the Casimir effect at finite temperature in Minkowski spacetime by using statistical method, the approximate expressions of the Casimir effect in the low and high temperature limits are also discussed. Then employing some general properties of the renormalized stress tensor, we obtain the Casimir energy stress tensor in Hattie-Hawking state.

Geometric Backreaction of Modified Quantum Vacua and Diffeomorphrisim Covariance

In this paper I have shown that squeezed modified quantum vacua have an effect on the background geometry by solving the semi-classical Einstein Field Equations in modified vacuum. The resultant geometry is similar to (anti) de Sitter spacetime. This geometry could explain the change of causal structure—speed of light—in such vacua without violating diffeomorphism covariance or causality. The superluminal propagation of photons in Casimir vacuum is deduced from the effective electromagnetic action in the resultant curved geometry. Singling between different vacua is shown not to violate causality as well when the geometric effect on the null rays is considered, causing a refraction of those rays when traveling between unbounded and modified vacua.

Neutrino oscillations in the Non-Kerr black hole with quantum phenomenon

In this study,we have investigated the mathematical components of the Dirac equation in curved spacetime and how they can be applied to the analysis of neutrino oscillations.More specifically,we have developed a method for calculating the phase shift in flavor neutrino oscillations by utilizing a Taylor series expansion of the action that takes into account△m^(4) orders.In addition,we have used this method to assess how the phase difference in neutrino mass eigenstates changes according to the gravitational field described by the Johannsen spacetime.

Rotating Squeezed Vacua as Time Machines

Squeezed quantum vacua seems to violate the averaged null energy conditions (ANEC’s), because they have a negative energy density. When treated as a perfect fluid, rapidly rotating Casimir plates will create vorticity in the vacuum bounded by them. The geometry resulting from an arbitrarily extended Casimir plates along their axis of rotation is similar to van Stockum spacetime. We observe closed timelike curves (CTC’s) forming in the exterior of the system resulting from frame dragging. The exterior geometry of this system is similar to Kerr geometry, but because of violation of ANEC, the Cauchy horizon lies outside the system unlike Kerr blackholes, giving more emphasis on whether spacetime is multiply connected at the microscopic level.

A massless scalar field in Robertson-Walker spacetimes:Adiabatic regularization and Green’s function

We study adiabatic regularization of a coupling massless scalar field in general spatially flat Robertson-Walker(RW)spacetimes.For the conformal coupling,the 2nd-order regularized power spectrum and 4th-order regularized stress tensor are zero,and no trace anomaly exists in general RW spacetimes.This is a new result that exceeds those found in de Sitter space.For the minimal coupling,the regularized spectra are also zero in the radiationdominant and matter-dominant stages,as well as in de Sitter space.The vanishing of these adiabatically regularized spectra is further confirmed by direct regularization of the Green's function.For a general coupling and general RW spacetimes,the regularized spectra can be negative under the conventional prescription.At a higher order of regularization,the spectra will generally become positive,but will also acquire IR divergence,which is inevitable for a massless field.To avoid the IR divergence,the inside-horizon regularization is applied.Through these procedures,nonnegative UV-and IR-convergent power spectrum and spectral energy density will eventually be achieved.

Erratum:Covariant Spin Kinetic Theory I:Collisionless Limit,[Y.-C.Liu,K.Mameda,and X.-G.Huang,Chin.Phys.C 44,094101(2020)]

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Spontaneous Excitation of an Accelerated Detector Interacting with a Massive Scalar Field and Unruh Effect

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.

Hawking radiation of Dirac particles from soft-hairy black holes

In this paper,we study the Hawking radiation of Dirac particles via tunneling formalism from linearly supertranslated Schwarzschild black holes.We find that the radiation spectrum and the Hawking temperature remain the same as the one without soft hair.

Covariant spin kinetic theory I:collisionless limit

We develop a covariant kinetic theory for massive fermions in a curved spacetime and an external electromagnetic field based on quantum field theory.We derive four coupled semi-classical kinetic equations accurate to O(ℏ),which describe the transports of particle number and spin degrees of freedom.The relationship with chiral kinetic theory is discussed.As an application,we study spin polarization in the presence of finite Riemann curvature and an electromagnetic field in both local and global equilibrium states.