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Does accelerating blackhole grow in size due to constant infalling unruh radiation?
Unruh effects stipulates that an accelerating observer will observe a thermal bath, like blackbody radiation, whereas an inertial observer would observe none. Now assume a constantly accelerating ...
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An example of the vacuum emitting photons?
Imagine we have two parallel wires with a potential difference of $V$ volts that form the opposite sides of a square of size $\lambda$.
Any virtual electron-positron pairs that form between the wires ...
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Does an electric field cause the vacuum to emit photons?
As I understand it electron-positron pairs pop in and out of the vacuum on a time scale $T$ inversely proportional to the electron mass.
Imagine we put a static electric field across the vacuum.
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Physical significance of number operator in QFT
Does the expectation value of the number operator corresponds to any physical observable or has any significance in classical limit? This is probably a dumb question, but I'm struggling to identify ...
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Does the Unruh effect need the accelerating observer's Hilbert space to be smaller than the inertial one?
I've encounter two different approaches to the Unruh effect and I feel like they are not consistent with one another.
Bogoliubov Transformation
In this approach the basic statement is that the vacuum ...
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