Unruh effect in storage rings

Details Unruh effect in storage rings Unruh effect in storage rings

2001-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0101054v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

17 pages, 4 figures, conference talk

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A uniformly accelerated system will get thermally excited due to interactions with the vacuum fluctuations of the quantum fields. This is the Unruh effect. Also a system accelerated in a circular orbit will be heated, but in this case complications arise relative to the linear case. An interesting question is in what sense the real quantum effects for orbital and spin motion of a circulating electron can be viewed as a demonstration of the Unruh effect. This question has been studied and debated. I review some of the basic points concerning the relation to the Unruh effect, and in particular look at how the electron can be viewed as a thermometer or detector that probes thermal and other properties of the vacuum state in the accelerated frame.

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