| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1848727 | Physics Letters B | 2016 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We find that a uniformly accelerated particle detector coupled to the vacuum can cool down as its acceleration increases, due to relativistic effects. We show that in (1+1)-dimensions, a detector coupled to the scalar field vacuum for finite timescales (but long enough to satisfy the KMS condition) has a KMS temperature that decreases with acceleration, in certain regimes. This contrasts with the heating that one would expect from the Unruh effect.
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Authors
W.G. Brenna, Robert B. Mann, Eduardo Martín-Martínez,