Measuring Unruh radiation from accelerated electrons
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-05-09 v5 Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Detecting thermal Unruh radiation from accelerated electrons has presented a formidable challenge due not only to technical difficulties but also for lack of conceptual clarity about what is actually seen by a laboratory observer. We give a summary of the current interpretations along with a simpler heuristic description that draws on the analogy between the Unruh effect and radiation from a two-level atomic system. We propose an experiment to test whether there is emission of thermal photons from an accelerated electron.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.06772,
title = {Measuring Unruh radiation from accelerated electrons},
author = {Gianluca Gregori and Giacomo Marocco and Subir Sarkar and Robert Bingham and Charles Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06772},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This is an expanded version of section 3.2 of arXiv:2211.13187 which we wrote for the Multi Petawatt Prioritization (MP3) workshop. This paper has been accepted for publication in EPJC