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Acceleration radiation and the Planck scale
Leonard ParkerGonzalo J. OlmoIván AgullóJosé Navarro-salassubject
High Energy Physics - TheoryPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsQuantum field theory in curved spacetime010308 nuclear & particles physicsVacuum stateFOS: Physical sciencesAcceleration (differential geometry)RadiationObserver (physics)01 natural sciencesPartícules (Física nuclear)Classical mechanicsHigh Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)0103 physical sciencesMinkowski spaceThermalMicroscopic theory010306 general physicsdescription
A uniformly accelerating observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum state as a thermal bath of radiation. We point out that this field-theory effect can be derived, for any dimension higher than two, without actually invoking very high energy physics. This supports the view that this phenomenon is robust against Planck-scale physics and, therefore, should be compatible with any underlying microscopic theory.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 | Physical Review D |