1998/08/20 by Hyeong-Chan Kim
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.064024
published as Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 064024 · 28 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 1998/08/20 · openalex publication_date 1999/02/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an exact treatment of the influences on a quantum scalar field in its Minkowski vacuum state induced by coupling of the field to a uniformly accelerated harmonic oscillator. We show that there is no radiation from the oscillator from the point of view of a uniformly accelerating observer. On the other hand, there is radiation from the point of view of an inertial observer if there are asymptotically switching on and off processes. It is shown that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen- (EPR-)like correlations of Rindler particles in Minkowski vacuum states are modified by a phase factor in front of the momentum-symmetric Rindler operators. The exact quantization of a time-dependent oscillator coupled to a massless scalar field is given.