Zero mode suppression of superluminal signals in light-matter interactions
arXiv:1811.02036 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.065005
Abstract
We show how two Unruh-DeWitt detectors that do not couple to the zero mode of a quantum field can exchange information faster than the speed of light. We analyze the specific cases of periodic and Neumann boundary conditions in flat spacetime with arbitrary spatial dimensions, and we show that the superluminal signal strength is only polynomially suppressed with the distance to the lightcone. Therefore, in any relativistic scenario modelling the light-matter interaction where a zero mode is present, particle detectors should explicitly couple to the zero mode.
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