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
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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.