Is there Unruh radiation?
Abstract
We present an exact analysis of an oscillator (the detector) moving under a constant force with respect to zero-temperature vacuum and coupled to a one-dimensional scalar field. We show that this system does not radiate despite the fact that it thermalizes at the Unruh temperature. We remark upon a differing opinion expressed regarding a system coupled to the electromagnetic field.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- January 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.09.068
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0509151
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhLA..350...17F
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- Phys.Lett. A350 (2006) 17-26