The Unruh Effect for Eccentric Uniformly Rotating Observers

It is common to use Galilean rotational transformation to investigate the Unruh effect for uniformly rotating observers. However, the rotating observer in this subject is an eccentric observer while Galilean rotational transformation is only valid for centrally rotating observers. Thus, the reliabil...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-01
Main Author: Ramezani-Aval, H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Eccentricity
Field theory
Lorentz transformations
Observers
Response functions
Rotation
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Summary:It is common to use Galilean rotational transformation to investigate the Unruh effect for uniformly rotating observers. However, the rotating observer in this subject is an eccentric observer while Galilean rotational transformation is only valid for centrally rotating observers. Thus, the reliability of the results of applying Galilean rotational transformation to the study of the Unruh effect might be considered as questionable. In this work the rotational analog of the Unruh effect is investigated by employing two relativistic rotational transformations corresponding to the eccentric rotating observer, and it is shown that in both cases the detector response function is non-zero. It is also shown that although consecutive Lorentz transformations can not give a frame within which the canonical construction can be carried out, the expectation value of particle number operator in canonical approach will be zero if we use modified Franklin transformation. These conclusions reinforce the claim that correspondence between vacuum states defined via canonical field theory and a detector is broken for rotating observers. Some previous conclusions are commented on and some controversies are also discussed.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1701.04059