Circular motion Unruh effect: in spacetime and in the laboratory
Cameron Bunney |Â University of Nottingham
The Unruh effect is the prediction that a uniformly linearly accelerating observer with proper acceleration will experience the Minkowski vacuum as if it were a thermal bath at temperature a/2Ï€. This thermality can be seen from a variety of perspectives, including a purely geometric picture, a quantum-field-theoretic picture, and through an operational particle-detector picture. By using particle detectors, however, one may extend the notion of acceleration-dependent response to uncover a variety of Unruh-like phenomena, including the circular motion Unruh effect. In this talk, Bunney will present an introduction to the Unruh effect and its various guises, before specialising to the circular motion Unruh effect and discussing the modelling of experimentally necessary features.
Note: We encourage you to join us 15 minutes early for coffee and snacks before the talk begins.
Location
- MC 5501