Detecting the rotating quantum vacuum
- 15 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 53 (8) , 4382-4387
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.53.4382
Abstract
We derive conditions for rotating particle detectors to respond in a variety of bounded spacetimes and compare the results with the folklore that particle detectors do not respond in the vacuum state appropriate to their motion. Applications involving possible violations of the second law of thermodynamics are briefly addressed. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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