Unruh effect for fermions from the Zubarev density operator
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-05-08 v1
Abstract
Using the Zubarev quantum-statistical density operator, we calculated the corrections to the energy-momentum tensor of a massless fermion gas associated with acceleration. It is shown that when fourth-order corrections are taken into account, the energy-momentum tensor in the laboratory frame is equal to zero at a proper temperature measured by a comoving observer equal to Unruh temperature. Consequently, the Minkowski vacuum is visible to the accelerated observer as a medium filled with a heat bath of particles with the Unruh temperature, which is the essence of the Unruh effect.
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@article{arxiv.1903.09697,
title = {Unruh effect for fermions from the Zubarev density operator},
author = {George Y. Prokhorov and Oleg V. Teryaev and Valentin I. Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09697},
year = {2019}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure