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Unruh effect with back reaction--A first quantized treatment

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We present a first-quantized treatment of the back reaction on an accelerated particle detector. The accelerated detector is described as a first quantized, charged, pointlike particle in a constant field with internal energy levels. A quantum version of canonically conjugate future and past Rindler horizon operators is introduced to facilitate the calculation. The evaluated transition amplitude for detection agrees with previously obtained results.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9801104,
  title  = {Unruh effect with back reaction--A first quantized treatment},
  author = {B. Reznik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9801104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, Revtex. Based on gr-qc/9511033

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