Vladimir I. Ritus

This paper is an expanded version of the author’s talk presented at a session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrating the 100th anniversary of V L Ginzburg’s birth. Tamm’s Special group was organized in June 1948 with the task to clarify the feasibility of constructing a hydrogen bomb. Having verified and confirmed the calculated results by Ya B Zel’dovich’s group, the Tamm group proposed an original hydrogen bomb design, which, following A D Sakharov’s idea, consisted of an atomic bomb surrounded spherically by nested uranium and heavy water layers: the heavy water, on V L Ginzburg’s suggestion, was replaced by higher-calorie solid lithium-6 deuteride. The ionization implosion of deuterium by uranium, both heated by the atomic bomb’s explosion, greatly accelerates nuclear reactions in deuterium and uranium and increases the total energy release. Upon their approval by the KB-11 top researchers, the Atomic project leadership, and the government, the proposals were implemented in the RDS-6s bomb, which was successfully tested on 12 August 1953. Lithium-6 deuteride turned out to be a convenient multipurpose nuclear fuel. The paper highlights the recognition by the leaders of the country and of the Atomic project that fundamental science plays a crucial role in promoting scientists’ ideas and proposals.

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The symmetry manifests itself in exact relations between the Bogoliubov coefficients for processes induced by an accelerated point mirror in 1 + 1 dimensional space and the current (charge) densities for the processes caused by an accelerated point charge in 3 + 1 dimensional space. The spectra of pairs of Bose (Fermi) massless quanta emitted by the mirror coincide with the spectra of photons (scalar quanta) emitted by the electric (scalar) charge up to the factor e ²/ħc. The integral relation between the propagator of a pair of oppositely directed massless particles in 1 + 1 dimensional space and the propagator of a single particle in 3 + 1 dimensional space leads to the equality of the vacuum-vacuum amplitudes for the charge and the mirror if the mean number of created particles is small and the charge e = √ħc. Due to the symmetry, the mass shifts of electric and scalar charges (the sources of Bose fields with spin 1 and 0 in 3 + 1 dimensional space) for the trajectories with a subluminal relative velocity β₁₂ of the ends and the maximum proper acceleration w ₀ are expressed in terms of the heat capacity (or energy) spectral densities of Bose and Fermi gases of massless particles with the temperature w ₀/2π in 1 + 1 dimensional space. Thus, the acceleration excites 1-dimensional oscillation in the proper field of a charge, and the energy of oscillation is partly deexcited in the form of real quanta and partly remains in the field. As a result, the mass shift of an accelerated electric charge is nonzero and negative, while that of a scalar charge is zero. The symmetry is extended to the mirror and charge interactions with the fields carrying spacelike momenta and defining the Bogoliubov coefficients α^B,F. The traces trα^B,F, which describe the vector and scalar interactions of the accelerated mirror with a uniformly moving detector, were found in analytic form for two mirror trajectories with subluminal velocities of the ends. The symmetry predicts one and the same value e ₀ = √ħc for the electric and scalar charges in 3 + 1 dimensional space. Arguments are adduced in favor of the conclusion that this value and the corresponding value α₀ = 1/4π of the fine structure constant are the bare, nonrenormalized values.

The symmetry between the creation of pairs of massless bosons or fermions by accelerated mirror in 1+1 space and the emission of single photons or scalar quanta by electric or scalar charge in 3+1 space is deepened in this paper. The relation of Bogoliubov coefficients with Fourier's components of current or charge density leads to the coicidence of the spin of any disturbances bilinear in scalar or spinor field with the spin of quanta emitted by the electric or scalar charge. The mass and invariant momentum transfer of these disturbances are essential for the relation of Bogoliubov coefficients with Green's functions of wave equations both for 1+1 and 3+1 spaces. Namely the relation (20) leads to the coincidence of the self-action changes and vacuum-vacuum amplitudes for the accelerated mirror in 1+1 space and charge in 3+1 space. Thus, both invariants of the Lorentz group, spin and mass, perform intrinsic role in established symmetry. The symmetry embraces not only the processes of real quanta radiation. It extends also to the processes of the mirror and the charge interactions with the fields carring spacelike momenta. These fields accompany their sources and define the Bogoliubov matrix coefficients \alpha^{B,F}. It is shown that the traces of \alpha^{B,F} describe the vector and scalar interactions of accelerated mirror with uniformly moving detector. This interpretation rests essentially on the relation (100) between the propagators of the waves with spacelike momenta in 2- and 4-dimentional spaces. The traces of \alpha^{B,F} coincide actually with the products of the mass shift \Delta m_{1,0} of accelerated electric or scalar charge and the proper time of the shift formation. The symmetry fixes the value of the bare fine structure constant \alpha_0=1/4\pi.