Published September 15, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Particles and energy fluxes from a conformal field theory perspective

  • 1. GReCO, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, 98bis Boul. Arago, 75014 Paris (France)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Bologna and INFN sezione di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica Teorica IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC and Facultad de Fisica, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot-46100, Valencia (Spain)

Description

We analyze the creation of particles in two dimensions under the action of conformal transformations. We focus our attention on Mobius transformations and compare the usual approach, based on the Bogoliubov coefficients, with an alternative but equivalent viewpoint based on correlation functions. In the latter approach the absence of particle production under full Mobius transformations is manifest. Moreover, we give examples, using the moving-mirror analogy, to illustrate the close relation between the production of quanta and energy

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 064022-064022.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society