Unruh Effect in the General Light-Front Frame
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We study the phenomenon of Unruh effect in a massless scalar field theory quantized on the light-front in the general light-front frame. We determine the uniformly accelerating coordinates in such a frame and through a direct transformation show that the propagator of the theory has a thermal character in the uniformly accelerating coordinate system with a temperature given by Tolman's law. We also carry out a systematic analysis of this phenomenon from the Hilbert space point of view and show that the vacuum of this theory appears as a thermal vacuum to a Rindler observer with the same temperature as given by Tolman's law.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502243,
title = {Unruh Effect in the General Light-Front Frame},
author = {Ashok Das and J. Frenkel and Silvana Perez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502243},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, RevTex, version published in Physical Review