Questions tagged [unruh-effect]
This tag is for questions regarding to the Unruh effect (also known as the Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect), the hypothetical prediction that an accelerating observer will observe a thermal bath, like blackbody radiation, whereas an inertial observer would observe none. It was described by Stephen Fulling in 1973, Paul Davies in 1975, and William Unruh in 1976.
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Will gravitational waves decay into photons? (and by how much?)
We know intense regions of curvature, for example near a black hole horizon, induce a flow of electromagnetic waves (and, less so, other particles). aka Hawking radiation.
By contrast, curvature in ...
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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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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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Path Integral for Unruh Effect
In derivation of Unruh effect, according to arxiv 2108.09188, we have
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\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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Does String Theory predict things like Unruh effect and Hawking radiation?
I've seen the other post about this, but the answer only discusses Unruh effect rather than String theory.
Hawking radiation and Unruh effect solidify fields as the universe's fundamental objects. ...
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Does the Unruh effect assume its conclusion?
Unruh effect says that accelerating observers see the single particle states of inertial frames as thermal baths.
But it proves it by defining the particle states in the accelerating observer's frame ...
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Might the tiny Hawking radiation from our cosmic event horizon (CEH) be additive, since my CEH is not your CEH?
Concerning our cosmic event horizon, an interesting question arises from the seemingly innocent statement, "My cosmic event horizon is not your cosmic event horizon." Ie: Since 'you' and 'I'...
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Informal derivation of the Unruh temperature
Imagine a charged particle of mass $m$ at rest in the electromagnetic vacuum.
The particle interacts most strongly with zero-point modes that have a wavelength $\lambda_C$ similar to the Compton ...
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Unruh effect origin of particle
I have a little confusion about where from the particle are coming in Unruh effect. Vacuum fluctuation is always there and does not depend on whether the frame/detector is moving or not. Vacuum ...
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