Physics NotePublished
Rotating Detectors and Mach's Principle
R.D.M. De Paola; N.F. Svaiter
2000
Publication details
- Authors
- R.D.M. De Paola; N.F. Svaiter
- Type
- Physics Note
- Status
- Published
- Publication date
- 2000
- Description
- In this work we consider a quantum version of Newton's bucket experiment in a flat spacetime: we take an Unruh-DeWitt detector in interaction with a real massless scalar field. We calculate the detector's excitation rate when it is uniformly rotating around some fixed point and the field is prepared in the Minkowski vacuum and also when the detector is inertial and the field is in the Trocheries-Takeno vacuum state. These results are compared and the relations with Mach's principle are discussed.
- Year
- 2000
- Number
- CBPF-NF-063/00
- Linked to a thesis
- No
- Linked to a grant
- No