2016/02/09 by Daiqin Su, C. T. Marco Ho, C T Marco Ho +4 · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Generalization #Minkowski space #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Radiation #Reflection coefficient #Regularization (linguistics) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa71d1
published in New Journal of Physics 19(6), 063017 (IOP Publishing) · 13 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2016/02/09 · openalex created_date 2016/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2017/05/09 · arxiv updated 2017/10/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We develop a quantum circuit model describing unitary interactions between quantum fields and a uniformly accelerated object in two spacetime dimensions, and apply it to a semi-transparent mirror that uniformly accelerates in the Minkowski vacuum. Our method is nonperturbative and valid for mirrors with arbitrary reflection coefficient . We use the circuit model to calculate the radiation from an eternally accelerated mirror and obtain a finite particle flux along the past horizon provided an appropriate low frequency regularization is introduced. In addition, it is straightforward to see from our formalism that the radiation is locally squeezed. The local squeezing is closely related to cutting correlations across the horizon, which therefore may have important implications for the formation of a black hole firewall.