Analysis reveals how two-photon emission affects field entanglement in uniformly accelerated frames, indicating new insights into quantum field theory.
We analyze the two-photon emission process of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. Using second-order perturbation theory, we derive the exact final quantum state of the field and classify the emitted photon pairs according to their directional decomposition into Unruh modes: right-right (RR), left-left (LL), and mixed (RL/LR) channels. The RR and LL contributions produce photon pairs within a single Rindler wedge, while RL and LR emissions generate entanglement across wedges. The first emission arises from a counterrotating (Unruh) excitation, followed by a rotating Wigner-Weisskopf-like decay. Our results reveal how acceleration imprints entanglement and thermal structure on the radiation, offering new insight into quantum field theory in noninertial frames and potential applications in relativistic quantum information.
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Arash Azizi (2025) studied this question.
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