THERMAL BATH AND DECOHERENCE OF RINDLER SPACETIMES

被引:58
作者
UNRUH, WG
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[1] Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology Program, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1992年 / 46卷 / 08期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3271
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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The Minkowski vacuum state is a thermal state as far as any uniformly accelerated observer is concerned. However, if we allow a thermal bath, or any system, to come to equilibrium with that thermal state, the state is not left as the Minkowski vacuum. The thermal bath, or the scatterer, destroys crucial coherences in the state across the horizon which destroy the character of the state.
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页码:3271 / 3277
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