Maybee, B, Hodgson, D, Beige, A orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-4220 et al. (1 more author) (2019) A physically-motivated quantisation of the electromagnetic field on curved spacetimes. Entropy, 21 (9). ARTN: 844. ISSN 1099-4300
Abstract
Recently, Bennett et al. [Eur. J. Phys. 37:014001, 2016] presented a physically-motivated and explicitly gauge-independent scheme for the quantisation of the electromagnetic field in flat Minkowski space. In this paper we generalise this field quantisation scheme to curved spacetimes.Working within the standard assumptions of quantum field theory and only postulating the physicality of the photon, we derive the Hamiltonian, H, and the electric and magnetic field observables, E and B, without having to invoke a specific gauge. As an example, we quantise the electromagnetic field in the spacetime of an accelerated Minkowski observer, Rindler space, and demonstrate consistency with other field quantisation schemes by reproducing the Unruh effect.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | quantum electrodynamics; relativistic quantum information |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Theoretical Physics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2019 14:09 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/e21090844 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150147 |