Emergent Anyon Distribution in the Unruh Effect

Abstract

We point out that, when the Unruh-DeWitt detector couples to a scalar primary operator of $d$-dimensional conformal field theory, the detector's power spectrum generally obeys the thermal distribution for $(1+1)$-dimensional anyons.

arXiv comment9 pages, 1 eepic figure; typos corrected, a reference added

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