Work

Notes on Rindler wave packets in Minkowski spacetime

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We consider wave packets of a massless scalar field that have well-localized Rindler energy, and examine how their energy appears to a Minkowski observer to study how the classical gravitational redshift formula is modified quantum mechanically. We derive, by using the saddle point approximation, an analytic expression for the Minkowski momentum distribution of such Rindler wave packets. We find a universal lower bound on the uncertainty in the Minkowski momentum; the momentum distribution can never become arbitrarily sharp.

Source: Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

DOI: 10.1103/dfzz-jnsh

Authors: Shono Shibuya, Sotaro Sugishita

Institutions: Nagoya University, Kyoto University, RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Awards: G2054957683, G6231996937, 重力理論の漸近対称性と平坦時空のホログラフィー