Thermal bath and decoherence of Rindler spacetimes
- 15 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 46 (8) , 3271-3277
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.46.3271
Abstract
The Minkowski vacuum state is a thermal state as far as any uniformly accelerated observer is concerned. However, if we allow a thermal bath, or any system, to come to equilibrium with that thermal state, the state is not left as the Minkowski vacuum. The thermal bath, or the scatterer, destroys crucial coherences in the state across the horizon which destroy the character of the state.Keywords
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