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, viewed as a function of for fixed everything else, has a natural reading as a spectrum: it says how much excitation probability accumulates at each possible gap, for a whole notional bank of detectors sharing one trajectory, one switching profile, and one field state, differing only in . Restricting to the excitation branch >0 — “did this detector behave as though it absorbed a quantum” is the only branch this article treats as bearing on particle content, since the decay branch <0 mixes genuine field structure with detector-specific spontaneous-emission physics that is present even in flat, empty spacetime with no field excitation at all —…
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Equation 16 · Evolutionary Physics
No Particle Without a Cosigner
This mathematical expression combines the displayed quantities; its precise role follows from the surrounding article text.
, viewed as a function of for fixed everything else, has a natural reading as a spectrum: it says how much excitation probability accumulates at each possible gap, for a whole notional bank of detectors sharing one trajectory, one switching profile, and one field state, differing only in . Restricting to the excitation branch >0 — “did this detector behave as though it absorbed a quantum” is the only branch this article treats as bearing on particle content, since the decay branch <0 mixes genuine field structure with detector-specific spontaneous-emission physics that is present even in flat, empty spacetime with no field excitation at all —…
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No Particle Without a Cosigner
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The first term is the field state — the same vacuum, or the same thermal state, or in curved spacetime the same choice among the Boulware, Hartle-Hawking, and Unruh states, since none of those is fixed by the geometry alone. The second is the coupling type: a detector linearly coupled to the field itself and a detector coupled to the field’s proper-time derivative are different instruments on the same worldline, and their response spectra carry different powers of in the numerator even for identical trajectories — Moustos showed exactly this, that a detector’s early-time response depends on which bilinear of the field it couples to, even though, remarkably, its late-time asymptotic…
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