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The Unruh-deWitt Detector and the Vacuum in the General Boundary formalism

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Hellmann,  Frank
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Rätzel,  Dennis
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, Golm, DE;

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Banisch, R., Hellmann, F., & Rätzel, D. (2013). The Unruh-deWitt Detector and the Vacuum in the General Boundary formalism. Classical and quantum gravity, 30 (23): 235026. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/23/235026.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-F681-D
Abstract
We discuss how to formulate a condition for choosing the vacuum state of a quantum scalar field on a timelike hyperplane in the general boundary formulation (GBF) using the coupling to an Unruh-DeWitt detector. We explicitly study the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector for evanescent modes which occur naturally in quantum field theory in the presence of the equivalent of a dielectric boundary. We find that the physically correct vacuum state has to depend on the physical situation outside of the boundaries of the spacetime region considered. Thus it cannot be determined by general principles pertaining only to a subset of spacetime.