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Simplified derivation of the Hawking-Unruh temperature for an accelerated observer in vacuum

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arxiv quant-ph/0401170 v2 pith:MPJDEMCL submitted 2004-01-27 quant-ph gr-qc

Paul M. Alsing , Peter W. Milonni This is my paper · ORCID
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A detector undergoing uniform acceleration $a$ in a vacuum field responds just as though it were immersed in thermal radiation of temperature $T=\hbar a/2\pi k c$. A simple, intuitive derivation of this result is given for the case of a scalar field in one spatial dimension. The approach is then extended to treat the case where the field seen by the accelerated observer is a spin-1/2 Dirac field.

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