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View SchemaThe Unruh effect in an Ion Trap: An Analogy
| Authors | P. M. Alsing, J. P. Dowling, G. J. Milburn |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0411096 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411096 |
Abstract
We propose an experiment in which the phonon excitation of ion(s) in a trap, with a trap frequency exponentially modulated at rate $\kappa$, exhibits a thermal spectrum with an "Unruh" temperature given by T=hbar*kappa. We discuss the similarities of this experiment to the usual Unruh effect for quantum fields and uniformly accelerated detectors. We demonstrate a new Unruh effect for detectors that respond to anti-normally ordered moments using the ion's first blue sideband transition.
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