Published June 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Unruh effect as a result of quantization of spacetime

  • 1. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Caixa Postal 131, 74001-970, Goiânia (Brazil)

Description

A way to encode acceleration directly into fields has recently being proposed, thus establishing a new kind of fields, the accelerated fields. The definition of accelerated fields points to the quantization of space and time, analogously to the way quantities like energy and momentum are quantized in usual quantum field theories. Unruh effect has been studied in connection with quantum field theory in curved spacetime and it is described by recruiting a uniformly accelerated observer. In this work, as a first attempt to demonstrate the utility of accelerated fields, we present an alternative way to derive Unruh effect. We show, by studying quantum field theory on quantum spacetime, that Unruh effect can be obtained without changing the reference frame. Thus, in the framework of accelerated fields, the observational confirmation of Unruh effect could be assigned to the existence of quantum properties of spacetime.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.050

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.050;
arXiv
arXiv:1804.09177v1;
PII
S0370269318303447;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
781
Journal Page Range
p. 611-615
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51017378
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE-TIME
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES

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