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Is there an analogous Unruh effect for observers on a rigidly rotating ring?
I read up on the Unruh effect recently and what I got from it is that its basically a result of transforming to Rindler coordinates and using a Bogoliubov transformation to change the creation and ...
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What if acceleration changes in the Unruh effect?
Based on the Unruh effect, when a observer accelerates then he will see a thermal bath. mathematically the vacuum state for a non-inertial observer is
$$|0\rangle=\text{cos}^{-1}(r)\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\...
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Unruh Radiation from hovering?
I know that masses on their own don't produce Unruh radiation outside of black holes which produce a similar effect known as Hawking radiation. However, what if some observer hovers above the Earth ...
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Don't all objects that collapse have an apparent event horizon and so Hawking radiates?
So say there is an object that is in the form of gas and dust and a core that weighs 10 earths is in the center and there is a sphere of gas around it that weighs 50 Earths, so the final mass is only ...
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Cosmological horizon and Hawking/Unruh radiation? [closed]
I have two questions about cosmological horizons and their emission of radiation
The first one is:
There are some authors that propose that dark energy or the accelerated expansion of the universe ...
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Are non-virtual particles of QFT real?
Perhaps the question may seem a bit provocative, but it refers to several mathematical and, presently physical facts, pointed out a long time ago:
The Unruh effect suggests that an accelerated ...
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Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect with non-uniform acceleration
Can there be some version of the Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect, in which the accelerating observer is moving with a non-uniform acceleration? Can someone refer some papers to read?
If there can not be ...
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Boulware and Unruh vacuum in Schwarzschild spacetime
I am studying quantization in Schwarzschild spacetime. In class the Boulware vacuum $\left| B \right>$ has been defined using the o.n. modes $u_I(x) = \frac{1}{4\pi \sqrt{\omega}}e^{-i\omega v}$, $...
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Path Integral for Unruh Effect
In derivation of Unruh effect, according to arxiv 2108.09188, we have
$$
\langle\phi_L|\exp(-\pi H)|\phi_R\rangle=\int_{\phi=\phi_R}^{\phi=\phi_L} D\phi e^{-S_E}\propto \int_{lower\space half\space ...
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How does Unruh detector work?
It is often said that an inertial observer in flat spacetime vacuum will see an accelerating observer thermalize (Unruh Effect). If an accelerated observer takes a particle in a box coupled with the ...
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Is it possible to explain radiation of an accelerated charged particle via the Unruh effect?
From the point view of a noninertial observer, if a charged particle accelerates then it can catch the Unruh particle and excite. After that, the charged particle emits it and falls back to its ground ...
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Role of horizon in Unruh effect
I’m reading this on the Unruh effect and it is derived by calculating the Bogoliubov coefficients between the Minkowski and Rindler observer. Rindler observers use a different set of modes to describe ...
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Why is the Unruh effect observer dependent?
Why Unruh radition is observer dependent why Hawking radition is not observer dependent?
I know hawking radiation is caused by the creation of a pair partice and antiparticle in two different sides ...
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Bogoliubov coefficients between inertial frames
The Klein–Gordon Equation in Minkowski space says $\partial_\mu \partial^\mu \phi+ m^2 \phi = 0$.
The solution has modes $e^{ikx}$, $e^{-ikx}$ scaled by creation and annihilation operators $a^{\dagger}...
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How is Hawking radiation formally derived?
[EDITED] I'm a postdoc working in cond-mat/quant theory, and I've heard some explanations of Hawking radiation that strike me as inconsistent or silly (e.g., in terms of pair production). I'm hoping ...
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