English

Acceleration and vacuum temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The quantum fluctuations of an "accelerated" vacuum state, that is vacuum fluctuations in the presence of a constant electromagnetic field, can be described by the temperature \TEH\TEH. Considering \TEH\TEH for the gyromagnetic factor g=1g=1 we show that \TEH(g=1)=\THU\TEH(g=1)=\THU, where \THU\THU is the Unruh temperature experienced by an accelerated observer. We conjecture that both particle production and nonlinear field effects inherent in the Unruh accelerated observer case are described by the case g=1g=1 QED of strong fields. We present rates of particle production for g=0,1,2g=0,1,2 and show that the case g=1g=1 is experimentally distinguishable from g=0,2g=0,2. Therefore, either accelerated observers are distinguishable from accelerated vacuum or there is unexpected modification of the theoretical framework.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1203.6148,
  title  = {Acceleration and vacuum temperature},
  author = {Lance Labun and Johann Rafelski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6148},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure; expanded discussion of experimental observables, added references, version appearing in Phys Rev D

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