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View SchemaSimplified derivation of the Hawking-Unruh temperature for an accelerated observer in vacuum
| Authors | Paul M. Alsing, Peter W. Milonni |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0401170 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401170 |
| DOI | 10.1119/1.1761064 |
| Journal | Am.J.Phys. 72 (2004) 1524-1529 |
Abstract
A detector undergoing uniform acceleration $a$ in a vacuum field responds just as though it were immersed in thermal radiation of temperature $T=\hbar a/2\pi k c$. A simple, intuitive derivation of this result is given for the case of a scalar field in one spatial dimension. The approach is then extended to treat the case where the field seen by the accelerated observer is a spin-1/2 Dirac field.
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