Transient phenomena in the Unruh effect

G.G.A. Bäuerle and A.J. Koning

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1988, vol. 152, issue 1, 189-198

Abstract: We derive an expression for the excitation rate of a DeWitt detector moving along an arbitrary world-line in Minkowski vacuum. For the special case of a uniformly accelerated detector this gives the well-known Unruh effect. It is shown here that, in general, for an arbitrarily moving detector Unruh's relation between temperature and acceleration does not hold even locally. Moreover, in some cases the response function exhibits oscillatory transient phenomena.

Date: 1988
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378437188900714
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:152:y:1988:i:1:p:189-198

DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90071-4

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().