Unruh Effect and Takagi's Statistics Inversion in Strained Graphene
arXiv:2209.08053 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.224310
Abstract
We present a theoretical study of how a spatially-varying quasiparticle velocity in honeycomb lattices, achievable using strained graphene or in engineered cold-atom optical lattices that have a spatial dependence to the local tunneling amplitude, can yield the Rindler Hamiltonian embodying an observer accelerating in Minkowski spacetime. Within this setup, a sudden switch-on of the spatially-varying tunneling (or strain) yields a spontaneous production of electron-hole pairs, an analogue version of the Unruh effect characterized by the Unruh temperature. We discuss how this thermal behavior, along with Takagi's statistics inversion, can manifest themselves in photo-emission and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. We also calculate the average electronic conductivity and find that it grows linearly with frequency . Finally, we find that the total system energy at zero environment temperature looks like Planck's blackbody result for photons due to the aforementioned statistics inversion, whereas for an initial thermally excited state of fermions, the total internal energy undergoes stimulated particle reduction.
arXiv comment25 pages, 5 figures
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